Help: Samba and Kerberos integration

Mantas M. grawity at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 15:18:27 EDT 2011


On 13/10/11 17:59, Lee Eric wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can Samba use Kerberos for authentication directly? I read a manual
> here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/Kerberos and it seems
> clients under Linux can access Samba shares by Kerberos properly. But
> how about Windows clients? Is there anything special there? The user
> information would be stored by LDAP.

Windows can use Kerberos for Samba servers, but the user needs to have
the TGT in their LSA cache -- in other words, have to be *logged in*
using an Active Directory account (or a manually-configured Kerberos
principal). MIT KfW won't work.

-- 
Mantas M.



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