>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.
