XP Client Trying to use Kerberos instead of SMB to Samba Serv er

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Tue Jul 31 20:25:40 GMT 2001


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Mayers, Philip J wrote:

> Interesting - check the security policy on the machine. Windows *should* be
> able to detect that you're talking to a non-Kerberised SMB server and
> downgrade. Have you tried it against an NT4 server, for example? The same
> thing *should* happen.
>
> Very interesting - I'd be curious to know what security policy settings
> you're using (I hope not the defaults).

We have rumours and some confirmation that Windows XP defaults
to using NTLMv2 only.  This is probably the source of the connection
problem.







cheers, jerry
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