[cvsnt] Re: Error :Incorrect username and password, can some one help please

[Dn]

Tony

thanks for the suggestion

sorry if  i am ignorant about this  ,

how bad can it be when a couple of users inside the company makes use of 
pserver  in the INTRANET



Tony Hoyle wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:09:28 -0500, Dn <kumar_anjaly at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Tony
>>
>>Thanks for the help , I tried to give the user name with the domain and 
>>WSAD does not accept that(or there might be another way to specify that)
>>
>>So , are you saying that pserver is not at all secure ?
>>
> 
> pserver is definately not secure... useful for LANs and many
> opensource projects use it as its supported by all clients, however
> it's a really bad idea to transmit things like domain passwords over
> it.
> 
> You might be able to setup an openssh server on the windows box and
> connect using ssh through WSAD - that's still not going to solve the
> domain issue but is secure.
> 
> Another way is to request an enancement to WSAD to accept the domain
> prefix to the username (or even sserver/sspi, but I doubt they'd
> support that).
> 
> Tony
>