[Samba] samba 3 as a pretend DC?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Apr 4 13:36:55 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 08:05, Byars, Jason M wrote:
> Hi, I'm stuck in a network enviroment where ADS has taken over and by 
> the end of the year the main DC's will only allow kerberos
> authentication.  The problem is I have several legacy systems that are
> equipment controllers that can't be upgraded.  They are running
> everything from OS/2 to NT4.  So I need something for them to
> authenticate against using Lanman/NTLM/etc.  
> Would it be possible to configure samba 3 to pretend to be a DC, but 
> instead of autheticating against it's own ldap database, make it
> authenticate against the main kerberos DC's?  Samba has gotten me out
> of several other situations, but I've never investigated using it this
> way before.  Is anyone in a similar situation?  Does anyone know if
> this is possible?  Thanks

If NT and LM authentication is really shut down (and that is not a usual
configuration), then there isn't anything much you can do.

However, this isn't a usual configuration, even for 'native mode' DCs. 

Andrew Bartlett

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