losing connections to password server

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:32:33PM +0000, jra at dp.samba.org wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:38:16AM -0400, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> > 
> > Why does server_validate() simply give up rather than re-establishing
> > its connection to the password server?  Though I am not fluent in the
> > SMB protocol, perhaps the cluster server process passes along to its
> > client workstation the session key it receives from the password
> > server, which means the password hashes submitted by the client would
> > not work on a subsequent connection, whose session key would be
> > different.  So server_validate() must give up.
> 
> Indeed. That's why security = server is at best a nasty hack. Please
> use security = domain.

"security = server" mode is also known as pass-through authentication.
There are some notes and references here:
  http://ubiqx.org/cifs/SMB.html#SMB.8.8

Chris -)-----

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