[Samba] Samba+Kerberos+OpenAFS

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Apr 19 15:16:05 GMT 2004


On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:00:20AM -0400, Derek Harkness wrote:
> Okay I don't think what I want to do is possible but here goes.  I want 
> to deploy a samba domain for my windows clients, but I want samba to 
> use AFS on the back end.  But AFS requires kerberos to get tickets and 
> tokens.  So is there anyway to make this work.  I personally don't care 
> if samba accepts kerberos tickets from the client or not, but a ticket 
> and AFS token will need to be issued on the samba server so that the 
> server has access to the users files.
> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions, opinions, comments, or hints.  Since I'm at 
> a complete loss on how to do this.

I'm told that this is what the ./configure --fake-kaserver option is for.

See discussion on the lists, and vl's SambaXP presentation when it
becomes available.

Andrew Bartlett


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