Hi guys,
This is an even strangier problem that I've been struggling with. I am using
Axis2 to call MS Sharepoint web services. At most customers, it works well.
However, at this one customer, the authentication just fails with the event
log message on the web server says: "Unknown user name or bad password" Of
course, the first possibility was invalid user name/password as the error
message suggested. But I tried many different variations. And I've written a
.Net client to try it with the same credential, it works. Of course, it
could be using NTLMv2 instead. So I tried another application that only
supports NTLMv1 (it's a C++ implementation), and it also works! I also
turned on wire trace. I know the host doesn't not enforce NTLMv2.
The next thing I did was getting all the Axis2 source code, and then all the
httpclient souce code down. I put in more trace, and saw the type 1 -> type
2 -> type 3 message handshaking. I even printed out the user name, password,
host, domain, and everything seems correct. But After the type 3 message was
sent to the server, the server returns 401. The only thing I didn't do is to
analyze the NTLM messages because I don't know how to validate them!
The client is running on the same machine as the web server. The user
account is a local account (not a domain account), JDK is 1.4.x,and
httpclient is 3.0.1. On the server, it says:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: SHAREPOINTADMIN
Domain: ITDSPDEV
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: NtLmSsp
Authentication Package: NTLM
Workstation Name: ITDSPDEV.COJ.NET
Caller User Name: -
Caller Domain: -
Caller Logon ID: -
Caller Process ID: -
Transited Services: -
Source Network Address: 161.243.4.71
Source Port: 2009
Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Logon account: SHAREPOINTADMIN
Source Workstation: ITDSPDEV.COJ.NET
Error Code: 0xC000006A
Any suggestions? What else can I do?
Thanks,
Jeff
