HP CIFS Server 3.0a Administrator's Guide version A.02.01

LDAP Integration Support
Network Environments
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5. The CIFS Server receives data attributes including the password
information from the LDAP directory server. If the password and
challenge information matches with information in the client response
package, the Samba user authentication succeeds.
6. If the Samba user is authenticated and is successfully mapped to a
valid posix user, the CIFS Server returns a user token session ID to the
Windows PC client.