Re: Tonight's new builds - release candidates?

Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Late breaking news.  The external Kerberos vs SMB AUTH problem has been
> solved
> by allowing EXTENDED authentication (GSS SPNEGO) to always be used even when
> we know that NTLM is all that will successfully be negotiated.
> Apparently, when
> SPNEGO is used the NTLMSSP always uses the local account's password and not
> the password entered at login time.  Thanks to Asanka for making the
> discovery.
>
> New builds have been uploaded.

Looks like it works on W2000. I removed the SMBAuthTye from registry and installed
the 20040723 version with the time stamp of 24-Jul-2004 04:08.

Thanks.


>
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
> > I have uploaded a new set of builds tonight.  Today's change is a fix
> > to the algorithm used
> > to reconnect to servers when all the servers are considered to be
> > down.  This solves a problem
> > which was reported involving physical network disconnects leaving
> > volumes which were
> > actively in use unaccessible until the AFS Client Service was restarted.
> >
> > There have been no other code changes.  The afs-install-notes.txt file
> > was updated to include
> > information about the current state of the SMB Auth vs external
> > Kerberos authentication.
> >
> > Daily builds can be obtained from:
> >
> >  /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
> >  \\afs\athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman\Public\OpenAFS\
> >  http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
> >
> > I am still anticipating a Tuesday release.
> >
> > Jeffrey Altman
> >

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