[Samba] Kerberos authentication for non-windows KDCs

Olivier Sessink lists at olivier.pk.wau.nl
Wed Mar 12 22:07:28 GMT 2008


Jeremy Allison wrote:

> That's just not true. Many people are successfully using Samba3 to authenticate
> with tokens from MIT or Heimdal kerberos servers.
> 
> The problem is getting the Windows clients to *get* these tickets, not in
> Samba interpreting them.

Is 'getting' or 'using' the kerberos ticket the problem?

One can install MIT kerberos on windows, and I suppose getting the 
tickets from an MIT KDC should be possible then, but will the cifs stack 
in windows actually use those tickets?

regards,
	Olivier Sessink


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