topic Problems with ntlm authentication in 2.1 RC1 in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problems-with-ntlm-authentication-in-2-1-rc1/m-p/107225#M75098 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've tried to upgrade our 2.0 installation to 2.1 RC1 and have some problems with ntlm authentication.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the error when we access Alfresco:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />08:53:25,028 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco].[Faces Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception<BR />net.sf.acegisecurity.AuthenticationServiceException: General error; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />Caused by:<BR />java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticatePassthru(NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.java:871)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticate(NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.java:550)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:281)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:187)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:154)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:107)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at $Proxy18.authenticate(Unknown Source)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.NTLMAuthenticationFilter.processType3(NTLMAuthenticationFilter.java:735)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.NTLMAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(NTLMAuthenticationFilter.java:402)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)<BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><STRONG>ntlm-authentication-context.xml:</STRONG><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' '<A href="http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd</A>'&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;beans&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="authenticationDao" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NullMutableAuthenticationDao" /&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– The authentication component.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Use the passthru authentication component to authenticate using&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– user accounts on one or more Windows servers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– Properties that specify the server(s) to use for passthru&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– authentication :-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!–&nbsp;&nbsp; useLocalServer&nbsp;&nbsp; use the local server for authentication&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!–&nbsp;&nbsp; domain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; use domain controllers from the specified domain–&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!–&nbsp;&nbsp; servers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; comma delimted list of server addresses or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!–&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; names&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; –&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;!–JTe&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="authenticationComponentImpl" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl"&gt; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="authenticationComponent" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="domain"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;SGU&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="personService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="personService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="nodeService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="nodeService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="guestAccess"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;false&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;/beans&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><STRONG>custom-authority-service-context.xml:</STRONG><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' '<A href="http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd</A>'&gt;<BR />&lt;beans&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="authorityService" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.authority.AuthorityServiceImpl"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="authenticationComponent"&gt;<BR />&lt;!–JTe&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="authenticationComponentImpl" /&gt; –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="authenticationComponent" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="personService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="personService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="nodeService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="nodeService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="authorityDAO"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="authorityDAO" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="permissionServiceSPI"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="permissionServiceImpl" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="adminUsers"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;set&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;alfresco&lt;/value&gt; &lt;!– add an NTLM user as an Administrator –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;admin&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;administrator&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;sysadmin&lt;/value&gt; &lt;!– add an NTLM user as an Administrator –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;jste&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;root&lt;/value&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/set&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&lt;/beans&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>It's possible to login using Firefox but I have to login twice.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>—</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Update:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I remove the ntlm filters from web.xml I can log in using domain user and password in both IE and Firefox. SMB/Cifs doesn't work. Error in alfresco.log:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />12:06:36,127 ERROR [smb.protocol.auth] Error during passthru authentication<BR />net.sf.acegisecurity.AuthenticationServiceException: General error; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />Caused by:<BR />java.lang.NullPointerException<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticatePassthru(NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.java:871)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.authenticate(NTLMAuthenticationComponentImpl.java:550)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.server.auth.AlfrescoAuthenticator.doPassthruUserAuthentication(AlfrescoAuthenticator.java:437)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.server.auth.AlfrescoAuthenticator.authenticateUser(AlfrescoAuthenticator.java:161)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.server.auth.CifsAuthenticator.processSessionSetup(CifsAuthenticator.java:511)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.procSessionSetup(NTProtocolHandler.java:407)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.runProtocol(NTProtocolHandler.java:221)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.run(SMBSrvSession.java:1352)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:36 GMT tyve 2007-07-06T09:05:36Z Problems with ntlm authentication in 2.1 RC1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problems-with-ntlm-authentication-in-2-1-rc1/m-p/107225#M75098 I've tried to upgrade our 2.0 installation to 2.1 RC1 and have some problems with ntlm authentication.This is the error when we access Alfresco:08:53:25,028 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco].[Faces Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet t Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problems-with-ntlm-authentication-in-2-1-rc1/m-p/107225#M75098 tyve 2007-07-06T09:05:36Z Re: Problems with ntlm authentication in 2.1 RC1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problems-with-ntlm-authentication-in-2-1-rc1/m-p/107226#M75099 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I believe I have found the cause of the error. The transactionService property should be added to the authenticationDao bean in ntlm-authentication-context-xml:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transactionService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="transactionComponent" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt; <BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:37:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problems-with-ntlm-authentication-in-2-1-rc1/m-p/107226#M75099 tyve 2007-08-21T06:37:43Z