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sr #108416: problems mounting a Sharepoint directory

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Submitted:  Fri 18 Oct 2013 03:04:19 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  In Progress
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  _71007
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Fri 09 May 2014 03:34:07 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I don't know whether this will be useful to the original poster, but we initially had a bit of trouble mounting Sharepoint 2010 with NTLM authentication. Basic authentication worked fine. I'm posting my notes just in case they will be useful to others.

When I changed Sharepoint authentication from Basic to NTLM (the same applies to Kerberos), I got an error:

"Could not authenticate to server: ignored NTLM challenge, GSSAPI authentication error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor
code may provide more information: Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_0' not found"

I googled and found the explanation at http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?108061 that indicated that the error happens when mount.davfs is using GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL.

Rebuilding davfs with OpenSSL resolved the problem.

Alex Jodidio <ajodidio>
Thu 07 Nov 2013 12:29:11 PM UTC, comment #3: 

SP admins found no clue from the logs before or after the occuring of the SPRequestGUID I posted them (from the latest request I did). So I'm quite clue- and hopeless now. I don't think we will get this working :'(

Is someone here with a working connection to a sharepoint-farm?

Anonymous
Thu 07 Nov 2013 11:16:56 AM UTC, comment #2: 

At first sorry for the delay - holidays have been in between ...

- I already set "allow_cookie 1", but with no success :(
- As far as I understand e. g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd908737(v=office.12).aspx the SPRequestGUID is for diagnostic purposes only. (It may help identify the requiest I do for the Sharepoint administrators)

So we still have no clue why this doesn't work. Maybe there is some weird configuration on SP side, but I can't exert influence on that much. (I will try though)

Will keep you updated.

Anonymous
Thu 24 Oct 2013 06:14:37 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Yes, the fisrst step works. it is authentication with the proxy. So, the proxy seems not to be aproblem.

But authentication with the server fails. davfs2 tries it three times but each time it fails.
line  32 : HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
line  71 : HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
line 101: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

At the moment I see three possible reasons:

1) Cookies:
The server sends a cookie-header. By default davfs2 ignores cookies. But with this server farm the cookie might be necessary to make sure that all requests are directed to the same server.
You can set option 'allow_cookie 1'. davfs2 will then include a cookie-header. Maybe this will help.

2) SPRequestGuid:
The server also sends header SPRequestGuid. I don't know what this header is for. If davfs2 is required to set this header in the requests too, this would require some extensions to the source-code of davfs2.

3) NTLM:
Your version of the Neon library is able to handle NTLM-authentication. But there might be subtle differences. I assume your stand-alone server uses NTLM too (you may check). So this is probably not the reason.

Werner

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Fri 18 Oct 2013 03:04:19 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I have problems with mounting a Sharepoint 2010 directory (it's a sharepoint farm, no problems with a single SP2010 host).
Attached you will find some of our syslog file. I only obfuscated some variables (username, URL, PW).

Obviously in the first step the authentication works, but it doesn't work when it comes to the last step. At least that one is different to when connection works (to another, single-host SP-Server).
I tried with and without proxy (firewall team opened the connection), no success :(

Any idea what could get wrong here?

Anonymous

 

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