[Samba] Samba 3 in MIT Kerberos Realm
Aaron Rosenblum
arosenbl at mac.com
Wed Oct 22 00:07:25 GMT 2003
Hi,
I have been reading through the docs for Samba 3, and there is a lot
of talk about how samba 3 can function in an AD domain as a member
server and accept kerberos service tickets issued by an MS KDC. (net
ads join, etc...)
I have a slightly different twist on a similar situation. I have an
MIT kerberos realm set up and my Windows2000 PCs get tickets from this
realm on login just fine. I would like to set up a samba server as
purely a fileserver, and I want my PC clients to be able to mount samba
shares using Kerberos service tickets issued by my MIT KDC. I know
many more people are probably using AD as their KDC, but we want to
decrease our reliance on AD. (That is the idea, isn't it? :-) ) It
seems like this should work. Is this possible? If so, how do I
configure the samba server? What do I tell my Kerberos admin to put in
the keytab for samba? ie smbserver/my.host.com at my.realm.com ???
As an addition, I am fine with managing my users locally on this samba
server (as opposed to binding to an LDAP server). Our KDC has a large
number of users in it, and I only want to give access to a very small
subset of these users. I just want these users to be able to present a
service ticket from our MIT realm as authentication instead of being
prompted for a password.
any input would be greatly appreciated..
thanks
Aaron
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