LDAP questions and password generation

[Malte Zacharias]

Thanks for the clarifications, however I had problems 
understanding this particular piece, could you explain
that to me?

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> The NTLM hash is the shared secret that NTLM authentication is based on.
> It cannot however be directly compared with any network value, instead
What do you mean with network value in this context?

tia,
Malte Zacharias