I've got a situation where a client computer (Windows Vista) doesn't seem to be sending the right password to a server (Windows Server 2003).
The event log records the logon failure, but as far as I can tell the client has the right password - so I'd really like to know what is actually being sent back & forth between the two computers as they try to negotiate the logon.
Is there any way to monitor/trace/examine a Windows logon session? (I assume a plain packet capture wouldn't work, since the passwords aren't sent in plain text - at least I hope not!)
MORE INFO: The server is the only server on the network. The computers are all on the same subnet, 192.168.1.xxx. The client computer is not a member of the domain. The server computer is the DNS server - and the client computer can correctly resolve the server's address without any problems.
The following events are logged in the event log:
- A logon attempt by
MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
, which fails with code0xC0000234
- A "logon failure" event which says "unknown user name or bad password."
- The user name specified in the event is the user name I'm using
- The "logon type" is "3"
- The logon process is "NtLmSsp"
- The authentication package is NTLM
All the client computer is trying to do is connect to a network share (mapping a network drive, actually).