Re: Linux CIFS NTLMSSP mount failing against win2k8

Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs,gmane.network.samba.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 19:40 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
>> I don't think that's right. CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE is 24 bytes. According
>> to the MS-NLMP document, the session key should be 16 bytes. The
>> signing key is different with NTLMSSP than with "raw" NTLM and NTLMv2.
>
> So, with NTLMSSP the 24 byte (actually variable, it is much lager for
> NTLMv2) response is not included in the MAC calculation - just use the
> 16 bytes session key only.

Does this apply to both ntlm and ntlmv2 authentications because for ntlm
authentication, session key is 16 bytes but not for ntlmv2 authentication?

I thought MAC key is generated by concatenating the smb session key
with ntlm/ntlmv2
client response to the server challenge.

confusing.

>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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> Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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