[Samba] How to disable NTLM authentication on Samba

[Gaiseric Vandal]

I must be missing something-


Are these Windows clients?  Or are these Linux clients authenticating 
against Samba ?


if they were linux clients then yes I could see sssd or other 
authentication components besides winbind coming into play. And in that 
case yes you would have sssd work with winbind to enable caching of 
credentials.


Is the event log entry below from the server ?   Is it from the domain 
controller or a file server?


What version of Samba are you running?

Are the files servers and domain controllers all Samba or do you have a 
mix of say Samba file servers with Windows AD servers?

The "no logon server" entry looks more relevant.      What version of 
Windows clients.        I think NTLMv2 is supported as far back as NT 
4.0 SP6.         Windows 2000 and later should be trying to use kerberos 
in preference to NTLM.   By chance have you disabled NTLMv2 and only 
enabled v1?      Are some windows clients failing while others succeeding ?








On 10/10/18 16:38, Reinaldo Souza Gomes wrote:
> Whenever a client uses kerberos as authentication, it succeeds.
>
> Whenever a client uses NTLM as authentication, it fails (logs bellow) 
> since SSSD can't support NTLM. Thus my question: what can I do to 
> prevent NTLM from being used??
>
> [2018/10/09 17:49:29.507046,  2] 
> ../source3/auth/auth.c:332(auth_check_ntlm_password)
>   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [MYUSER] -> [MYUSER] 
> FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS, authoritative=1
> [2018/10/09 17:49:29.507074,  2] 
> ../auth/auth_log.c:760(log_authentication_event_human_readable)
>   Auth: [SMB2,(null)] user [MYDOMAIN]\[MYUSER] at [Tue, 09 Oct 2018 
> 17:49:29.507062 -03] with [NTLMv2] status 
> [*NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS*] workstation [MACHINENAME] remote host 
> [ipv4:192.168.1.1:1109] mapped to [MYDOMAIN]\[MYUSER]. local host 
> [ipv4:10.0.0.1:445]
>
> Em quarta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2018 17:09:54 BRT, Gaiseric Vandal 
> via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> escreveu:
>
>
> How would samba forward any requests on to any other service ?       You
> can have sssd setup on a server if you also need to support things like
> ssh, sftp, and nfs but that is separate from samba's "Windows" services.
>
> Or do you mean it forwards NTLM requests to a different server ?
>
>
> Disabling NTLM altogether would be a useful feature if you are trying to
> minimize the attack surface.
>
>
>
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>
> On 10/10/18 15:52, Reinaldo Souza Gomes via samba wrote:
> >  Forgive me if I have misundertood your words, but what I want is to 
> prevent Samba from accepting NTLM(v1, v2, SSP, or whatever) and 
> forwarding it, since SSSD does not support it. I am not trying to get 
> SSSD to support any kind of NTLM. So, this would be a Samba issue, not 
> SSSD's. Isn't that correct?
> > Putting it in another words: what can I do (preferrably on the Samba 
> server) to prevent windows clients from successfully sending NTLM 
> authentication to my Samba server?    Em quarta-feira, 10 de outubro 
> de 2018 16:29:28 BRT, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org 
> <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>> escreveu:
> >
> >  On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:50:23 +0000 (UTC)
> > Reinaldo Souza Gomes via samba <samba at lists.samba.org 
> <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> How can I make sure that NTLM(SSP) will never be used??
> >>
> >> I’ve set up Samba with SSSD and everything Works fine... except for a
> >> few Windows machines which every now and then happen to send NTLM
> >> authentication flags to the Samba server, which happily forwards
> >> them. And then the authentication fails because SSSD doesn’t support
> >> NTLM.
> >>
> >> I’ve tried all sorts of parameters combination on smb.conf (including
> >> "ntlm auth = disabled"), but I didn’t find a way to completely refuse
> >> NTLM authentication on the Samba server, and force the client to use
> >> another authentication method (kerberos).
> > You will have to ask the sssd-users mailing list, you are not using
> > Samba for authentication.
> >
> > sssd isn't a Samba product.
> >
> > Samba by default no longer uses NTLMv1
> >
> > Rowland
> >
>
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