Hi. Is there a way I can force winbind to do chal-resp first, before attempting plain-text? Right now, when I do wbinfo -a abhay_pradhan%***** both chal-resp as well as plain-text succeed. but when i do ntlm_auth, the winbind logs show that plain-text auth is happening. Also, can i test using ntlm_auth? when I do this ntlm_auth --username=abhay_pradhan --domain=MYDOMAIN --password=foobar plain-text auth happens. How can I get it to try chal-resp? Apologies for so many questions, but i'm feeling in the dark here. One last one, how do I use ntlm_auth with --helper-protocol=ntlmssp-client-1 ? right now, after supplying all the parameters, it just waits. Could someone give me an example? abhay