NTLM and FTP authentication not working

[fschutte]

We have Alfresco 3.0 installed on Ubuntu with NTLM authentication for our existing active directory.
Everything, including webdav and cifs, works fine, except for FTP. And I would really like to be able to use it.
Configuration in file-servers-custom.xml is:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="FTP Server">
     <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
      <authenticator type="alfresco"/>
   </config>
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At startup there is no problem. The ftp server seems to run, but when trying to login you always get: 530 Access Denied.
In alfresco.log I see the following statements:

11:09:25,515 DEBUG [org.alfresco.ftp.protocol.auth] org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: MD4 passwords not supported
11:09:25,524 DEBUG [org.alfresco.ftp.protocol.auth] Authenticated user fschutte sts=false via Passthru
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What I don't understand is why CIFS works fine, but FTP does not work.
Also, if MD4 passwords are "not supported", can somebody tell me if it will be supported in the near future, or if there are any workarounds so I can use ftp?

Thanks,
Friso

[fschutte]

Just in case anyone is interested, we solved the issue by using the passthru authenticator like this:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="FTP Server">
        <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
        <authenticator type="passthru">
        <Server>server1,server2</Server>
        </authenticator>
   </config>
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