Hi,
The problem persists with quoted username (it's Administrator in UTF-8 in russian and it looks correct in logs):
Does it work when you run that exact command from the command line?
The error being returned is coming from ntlm_auth. My guess is that it's not UTF-8 compatible.
try this ...wrapping the system so it translates.... in a higher-priority dirctory, make a new ntlm_auth file: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/ntlm_auth | /usr/local/bin/iconverted and then make the iconverted file: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Text::Iconv; my $conv = Text::Iconv->new("utf-8", "windows-1252"); local $| = 1; while (<>) { print $conv->convert($_); } of course, you have to have Text:Iconv PERL library installed..and PERL. but this should pipe things through the conversion to windows 1252 character set (this i guessing that ntlm_auth has issues.....or that the remote windows server does!) alan