RE: [squid-users] Windows 7 beta and NTLM

>We use NTLM authentication, but the new windows 7 beta (yes, its beta
>but its nice to know of potential issues before they get widely
>released) seems to be having trouble authenticating.

>A standard authentication from XP provides the following in
>/var/log/squid/cache.log:

> Got user=[912058] domain=[UK] workstation=[LONW037057] len1=24 len2=24

>An authentication from Windows 7 beta is shown below:

> Got user=[009340] domain=[UK] workstation=[LONW032292] len1=24
>len2=332
> Login for user [UK]\[009340]@[LONW032292] failed due to [Invalid
>parameter]

>I see the different "len2" information at the end, so I assume MS has
>extended something.

>The packages we are running are squid-2.6.STABLE20-1.el5 and
>samba-common-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1.

>I am curious whether a package upgrade will fix the problem, if this
>windows 7 thingy has introduced an incompatibility that we expect MS to
>fix with their next release or if this is a valid request that uses a
>hitherto unused part of the protocol and therefore we should allow for
>it.

Are you actually talking about Windows 7 or IE8?
Other NTLM-enabled browsers may still work, IE: firefox.
Received on Fri Jan 09 2009 - 18:02:41 MST