Good evening folks, I have a WIN2K system and I am failing to authenticate to a Samba 2.2 installation, which I suspect is due to the weird length of Unicode password length in the SessionSetupAndX message. Here is my circumstance.
On my W2K machine: -Run the secpol.msc management plug-in thingie. -Click "Local Policies" -Click "Security Options" -In the right pain, look for "LAN Manager Authentication Level" -Double click on this. -In the pull-down, set it to "Send NTLMv2 response only" -Commit that change. -Now, connect to the Samba machine. The ANSI password length in the SessionSetupAndX is 24, but in my case the Unicode Password Length is 78 (this is according to the latest & greatest ethereal built from sources yesterday). When I change the setting in LAN Manager Authentication Level" back to the default, I can connect to Samba 2.2 using the same creds. I tried this on a W2K -> W2K setup (not active directory) and the same trace occurs, but this time, the Unicode password length was 66 (it was a different account/password)! Anyone else see this? Does anyone know how the binary response of 78 bytes is created? Lots of zeros, it does not appear to be ASN.1 Have a great night, Joey.