HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

CIFS Authentication Using Kerberos

Using Kerberos with the HP CIFS Client

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Step 3. Conﬁgure Kerberos on the HP CIFS Client

The conﬁguration parameter, authenticationLevel, speciﬁed in the HP

CIFS Client conﬁguration ﬁle (/etc/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.cfg)

indicates which mechanism should be used by the CIFS Client to

authenticate users to CIFS servers. Legal entries for this parameter are

ntlm or kerberos. By default, the traditional Windows NT LAN

Manager (NTLM) protocol is used. The conﬁguration setting is:

authenticationLevel = ntlm;

If you wish to use Kerberos, change the line to:

authenticationLevel = kerberos;

In this case, the CIFS Client will request the use of Kerberos when

negotiating an initial connection with the CIFS Server. If the server’s

response is afﬁrmative, only Kerberos is used for authenticating users to

this server; otherwise NTLM is used.