Windows Authentication and Tomcat 5

references:
- Tomcat and NTLM Authentication
- [jcifs] jcifs encoding issue with NtlmHttpFilter and IE 6.0

tools used:
jcifs - an SMB client library written entirely in Java

problems encountered:
problem: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: Cp850 occurs when using when using internet explorer. works fine with firefox.
solution: in the web.xml set jcifs.encoding to cp1252