Trouble authenticating with OfficeJet CIFS client

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:57:12PM -0700, Bob Richmond wrote:
>> Hmm, I see that now. So, what is the meaning of "User ID" in the context 
>> of the first sessionsetupX response for NTLMSSP_CHALLENGE, if the CIFS 
>> client hasn't yet specified the username it wants to authenticate as?
> 
> It's a placeholder. On Windows it becomes the eventual uid used, but
> we allocate a new one. I'll look into fixing that.

The [v]uid in the SMB header is not related to real user IDs as assigned by
the OS.  It is a token allocated by the server and associated with a login
instance.  There may be several valid authentications, all with different
[v]uid's assigned, within the same session.

Chris -)-----

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