On Monday 20 February 2006 06:56 am, Paul Kölle wrote: > I've never used TNG so I cannot judge about its merits but I note that > lots of the information on their site is simply old/outdated. I've yet > to see a feature TNG supports wich samba doesn't.
Well, from what you say, it appears that my research into samba-tng is already a bit outdated. I would still like to seperate the file serving from the authentication mechanisms. Perhaps I should look into SASL's NTLM mechanism. > Hmm, I'm not trying to discourage you but I would be surprised if the MS > consumer products will talk anything but NTLM (against w2k server, > samba4, whatever) and I'm pretty sure none of the MS clients will do > kerberos outside a domain context (prove me wrong please ;). I understand that. Needless to say, I was very disappointed where windows (in particular, xp home edition) falls short with authentication capabilities, at least pGina can fill in the gaps on occasion. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 3rd party tools, though I have not found them. > One can get pretty far without krb5 though. cyrus-sasl can do NTLM so > you can integrate Outlook with your SMTP/IMAP servers, squid can > authenticate against a samba server, http-auth with NTLM should be > possible (mod_ntlm) all reusing the logon credentials. > > cheers > Paul Thanks for all of your feedback, Paul. It's helped me in consideration for various aspects of my setup, and hopefully others as well. Robert -- [email protected] mailing list
