Help: Samba and Kerberos integration

Lee Eric openlinuxsource at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 09:59:25 EDT 2011


Thanks mate. So could users under Linux to use Kerberos to log in the
Samba server? Any docs here?

Eric

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Mantas M. <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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