smbclient source code.( -k option )

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:19:00AM -0700, ranjith.rajendran at wipro.com wrote:
> Thanks Volker for your valuable info...
> 
> As I Understand that smbclient with -k options is to be used when we are trying to connect to AD Environment.
> 
> Pls clarify on the below work flow :
> 1> smbclient uses kerberos security mechanism to connect to a PC.
> 2> If kerberos fails,it falls back to the common NTLM security mechanism and connects to the pc.

To be honest, I would have to test it myself. But this
sounds very likely.

> In order to implement kerberos security, I'm using following functions :
> 
> /* Setting (or) Re-setting SMB_CONTEXT to kerberos mode accordingly */
> smbc_setOptionUseKerberos(context, option_value.b); 
> smbc_setOptionFallbackAfterKerberos(context, option_value.b);
> 
> Please guide me to enable kerberos in my implementation.

Also, this sounds very good. If it does not work, please
give us more information what fails.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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