Re: Problem with NTLM auth against an Exchange server

From: Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba dot org)
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 03:42:06 EST

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    On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 06:04, David Partain wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > At work, we use exchange servers extensively. No, it's not
    > my fault. Our servers require NTLM authentication for IMAP.
    >
    > Background: I'm a linux user and read mail with kmail.
    > To date, I've used fetchmail (with its NTLM support from
    > samba) to suck down the mail and deliver it locally and read
    > it from there. This works fine, but... I'd rather use IMAP
    > and leave stuff on the server so I can handle mail more easily
    > while on the road.
    >
    > Until recent kde releases, talking to our exchange servers
    > was out of the question since kmail didn't support NTLM
    > authentication. Now, however, it's now possible to use NTLM
    > if you have the Cyrus SASL NTML plugin installed.
    >
    > So, I grabbed and compiled cyrus-sasl, including the NTLM
    > plugin. Now, I can successfully configure a kmail "receiver"
    > to use NTLM. But that's as far as I get. When I try to log in,
    > it fails 'cause I don't have the right username magic.

    If you try my patch:

    http://download.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/trunk/patches/

    This should use domain\username, and use Samba's ntlm_auth utility for
    better NTLMSSP compatibility. I would be interested to see if this
    helps.

    Andrew Bartlett

    -- 
    Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at samba dot org
    Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
    Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc dot net
    
    



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