[Samba] authentication protocols supported by samba

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On 3 Mar 2003, Francois Beretti wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I am preparing a document for my chief, about samba and its
> functionnalities, in order to use it as a NT4 PDC and then, maybe, a
> member server in a Active Directory environnement, and then to develop
> security architectures based on samba
> 
> He asked me which are the authentication protocols used by Samba
> I am new to Microsoft network technologies, so I am quite confused...
> He spoke me about SMB, NTLM, NTLMv2, Kerberos

SMB is the resource sharing protocol; not an authentication protocol.
NTLMv1 support by Samba 2.2
NTLMv2 shoudl be working in SAMBA_3_0 now.

> I know that kerberos is supported by Samba 3

Correct.





cheers, jerry
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