Pass-through Authentication

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:57:33PM +0000, DaveP wrote:
> Gerald Carter wrote:
> > 
> > Dave,
> > 
> > You should read the winbind paper linked off the from page of the samba
> > web site.
> > 
> > Cheers, jerry
> 
> Yes I've looked at winbind, and quickly eyeballed the samba-appliance
> code. I get the impression however that winbind still uses SMB protocols
> for authentication rather than talking directly to the SAM using RPC.

Well the authentication protocols are just RPC over SMB.
The SMB is just the transport in this case.

Jeremy.

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