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Microsoft updates UAM authentication for OS X

updated 02:10 am EST, Wed November 28, 2001

 
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Microsoft has posted updated UAM authentication module, which provides a "superior method for encrypting the passwords that you use to log into Windows AFP Servers." It includes support for NTLMv2 128bit encrypted authentication as well as OS X 10.1. [Classic, Carbon]


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    huh

    Windows AFP servers? i.e. Windows Apple File Protocol? What's that? AFP running on Windows? Or Microsoft's own implementation of AFP? Or something else entirely and I'm just being stupid?

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    Windows AFP

    Windows AFP is AFP on a Windows server. aka Macintosh Services for Windows NT.
    As far as I know, it's real AFP (not some Microsoft clone), but it uses slightly different authentication. That's probably due to how Windows servers handle logins. So, the UAM acts as a go-between from the Chooser/Network Browser/Connect To... by encrypting your password into the format that the Windows server wants to recieve it.
    -Ster

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    Yup...

    I have a win2k machine hosting AFP, and you know what, It actually is more compatible with my Powerbook than the G4 we just purchased. Funny eh? My PB can sharing files easliy with my win2k box and is having a hardtime sharing files with the G4 under OSX....

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