CIFS Test Authentication Can't Find the Server

[TheCaucasianAsian]

Summary: I create a site_credential object, then run the "test" function on them and receive this response for multiple hosts: Scan target unavailable (This doesn't get shown explicitly, I had to add some code to the gem to show the response.)

I'm testing CIFS authentication, but here is my code (I pulled all the data out of it for this post.):

nsc = Nexpose::Connection.new(, , ) nsc.login

newCredential = Nexpose::SiteCredentials.for_service('admin2')
newCredential.service = 'cifs'
newCredential.user_name = ''
newCredential.password = ''
newCredential.scope = 'S'
newCredential.description = 'Bryan Gem Test'
newCredential.enabled = 'true'

output = newCredential.test(nsc, '', engine_id=17) ? "true": "false"
puts 'Testing Login: ' + output

Thanks in advance for your help, I'm hoping it's just an error with how I'm setting these up.

[gschneider-r7]

I'm not seeing anything obviously wrong in your code. Do you get the same error if you try to test the same credential and engine from the UI in Administration > (Manage or Create) Shared Credentials?

Unfortunately the error message "Scan target unavailable" is not really correct (a known issue in Nexpose itself) so the true error could be invalid username/password, invalid domain, etc.

[TheCaucasianAsian]

Hi! Thank you for the quick response.

I've been playing around with everything, just reinstalled the gem and everything worked. Not sure what happened, but I can't complain. Thank you for your help!