[plug] Solaris / SMB authentication

Kevin Shackleton krshackleton at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 08:29:10 UTC 2013


It's not as simple as encrypted / not encrypted passwords is it? Cheers,
Kevin


On 14 June 2013 14:03, Steve Baker <steve at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi PLUG,
>
> Hope you'll forgive the slight off-topicness. I have a Solaris (Omni-OS,
> actually) installation with Napp-IT. I have connected it to my AD domain
> and I can see/use the SMB shares if I connect from a logged-in windows
> workstation, and I can assign ACLs using Windows Groups etc.
>
> Using smbclient to connect to the SMB share from a Linux system, or any
> other mechanism that tries to authenticate directly to the napp-it box,
> fails.
>
> I _think_ that what is happening is that when connecting from a windows
> box, the Kerberos ticket is handed over and Solaris/SMB accepts it. My
> understanding of Kerberos is very limited, is this what is happening?  How
> can I connect to the SMB shares and get the Solaris box to authenticate
> properly?
>
> Doing the same thing on Linux works the way it is supposed to, I don't
> have this problem.  I'd like to stick with Napp-IT though if possible...
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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