SAMBA again

Matthew Carpenter matt
Fri Nov 18 14:06:45 PST 2005


On Friday 18 November 2005 13:07, Aaron Grewell wrote:
>
> Here's what happens from the Kerb side: When you 'net ads join' a
> computer account is created in the domain.  Your computer is now part of
> the Kerberos realm, and can then authenticate users against the KDC (the
> PDC in this case).  When you use kinit you're authenticating a normal
> user to test the Kerberos authentication and make sure it's working at
> all.  If it does, then Kerb isn't what's causing your problem.  If all
> you want from this machine is for it to be a Samba server then there's
> no need to worry about PAM, but I believe you'll still need Winbind in
> order to resolve the users from AD.

> I'm not sure what you mean here.  If the administrative account is
> getting locked out that usually means a failed password attempt.  If the
> computer account is getting locked out that's something different.
>

So is there a kerberos daemon which needs to run on the server?  Or is that 
only if you run a KDC?
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