[Samba] Samba authenication to Window Active Directory

[Andrew Bartlett]

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > Cynthia Marie Calvin wrote:
> > >
> > > Has any version of Samba been tested for compatibility with the new
> > > Windows Active Directory?
> > >
> > > We will be upgrading our NT domain to 2000 and creating Active
> > > Directory.
> > >
> > > Currently our solaris samba 2.0.7 server is configured to authenicate
> > > users from our NT domain controllers.  Will we encounter problems with
> >
> > Only if you move to native mode.  However, due to other bugs (in win2k
> > as much as in Samba) and upgrade to 2.2.5 wold be a good idea.
> >
> > Native AD support is available in Samba HEAD.
> 
> Now andrew, you know that 2.2.x can operate in a native
> Win2k domain using NTLM.  :-)  Just not kerberos, which is
> what I know you were referring to.

Well, the wbinfo -Auser%pass option is pretty ugly, but yes, it
certainly works.

I suppose I should have said 'full AD support' - I used 'native' to mean
two different things and created a rather confusing statement out the
far end ;-)

Andrew Bartlett

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