KRB5 & Sun Solaris 9

[Will Fiveash]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:46:03AM -0700, Jamen wrote:
> In order to utilize Samba, we have to use MIT or Heimdal's KRB. Sun's
> will not work with Samba on Solaris 9. I've been told that there is a
> version on 10 that does work, but I couldn't get it to work on our
> box, but did with MIT's. Our goal is to create share drives on these
> servers through Active Directory, and we're utilizing Samba, KRB, and
> OpenLDAP for this purpose. I've installed Samba and Samba is seeing
> all of the resources, but Keberos fails when I issue the kinit
> command. Currently, we are not able to upgrade the box to 10 since it
> is a heavily used server. Any other guidance would be greatly
> appreciated!

A couple points:

1. Which kinit are you running?  Make sure you're running
   the MIT kinit and not the Solaris version.

2. It's my impression samba for Solaris 10 has been enhanced and
   supports krb auth.  When I get more info on this I'll pass it on.

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Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/