[Samba] SMB signing

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Dec 23 10:33:32 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 19:46, Torbjorn Tornkvist wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 22:04, Tobbe wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I wonder if it is possible to setup Samba (client or server)
> >>to use SMB signing (without NTLMv2, NTLMSSP etc).
> >>
> >>I've been trying to do this by setting 'Digital Signing' as a 
> >>requirement on my Windows 2000/2003 servers. With Samba 2.x,
> >>SMB signing seem to not be supported, with Samba 3.x I get this
> >>NTLMSSP stuff.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >And what is wrong with that?
> >  
> >
> It's nothing wrong with that.
> I just wanted to study how SMB signing is done and the NTLMSSP stuff
> confuses me. 

Then simply turn it off.  'use spnego = no' on the server and 'client
use spnego = no' for the client.

> The reason for my question was that, by looking into the
> CIFS-SNIA tech.ref,  it seems that SMB signing should work with just
> NT/LM (v1 ?) authentication.
> 
> Another question: Does anyone know if the MAC-key (used for
> the signing) is the same as the NT/LM-session key ?

It is.  See the Samba4 code for a bit more detail, there are a few
things that are not quite as you might expect, mostly regarding the 'NT
response' that should form part of the calculation.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at samba.org
Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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