[plug] Solaris / SMB authentication

Steve Baker steve at iinet.net.au
Mon Jun 17 01:01:44 UTC 2013


I don't think so, I think systems using SMB hash the passwords anyway, 
the server would just pass that on to the AD server to verify, but I 
guess it's possible.  I'm not sure though where I would look to check 
that ...?


On 14/06/13 16:29, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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