[sclug] Mozilla and NT Authentication

[Chris Pugh]

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On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:28, lug at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Chris Pugh wrote:
> > I use Mozilla as my browser but am having some problems accessing a few
> > areas on our Intranet.
> >
> > The pages in question use NT Challenge/Response Passowrds (I think also
> > called NTLM).  Mozilla gives an error as below:
> > ==========================
> > 401.2 Unauthorized: Logon Failed due to server configuration
> >
> > This error indicates that the credentials passed to the server do not
> > matcht he credentials required to log on to the server. This is usually
> > caused byn ot sending the proper WWW-Authenticate header field.
> > ==========================
> >
> > I have got every other aspect of Linux working perfectly and never need
> > tob oot into W2K, but this is really bugging me.  I have done plenty of
> > searches, but can't find any help.
>
> You need to authenticate using
>
> username: NTDOMAIN\DOMAINUSER
> password: DOMAINPASSWORD
>

This works for accessing all of the standard web pages where the Proxy Server 
requires standard password, but not where the ISA Server requires NT 
Chall/Resp. to access the page.

Cheers,

Chris.



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