[wpkg-users] Computer account

[le dahut]

How does computer account authentication work ?
I've read the code but I don't understand where it's called. I made some 
'grep' on "m_bNetUseMachineAccount" but I haven't found what I'm looking 
for.
Does WPKG client extract some user/password ?

I think there could be a solution with computer account in a samba 
domain because computer are authenticated by the PDC to be able to open 
a session on the domain.

And when I look in the LDAP information about my XP box I have this 
(slapcat | less) :
  displayName: XP4$
  sambaAcctFlags: [W          ]
  sambaNTPassword: 2EDAB3A927C15AEC59ED849CF68377B9
  sambaPwdLastSet: 1258642532

So I'm pretty sure there is a way to use computer credentials to access 
a share, no ?


I hope there will be a way to use computer account because I can't let a 
share writeable to "nobody" nor I can use a domain account for WPKG 
client. Those 2 solutions are not secure enough.



Marco Gaiarin wrote :
> Mandi! Lukasz Zalewski
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
>> bit tho). I have seen a message posted to samba mailing list regarding  
>> machine authentication but have not seen any responses yet. If I'm wrong  
>> please do let me know as this is very cool feature that will allow  
>> writing logs to a network share in a sane way.
> 
> I can confirm that basic machine authentication works: i have setup
> radius server in a manner that wireless clients authenticate with
> machine account.
> But i can confirm also that does not work for network shares, and also
> that there's no answer in samba list.
> 
> I will try to ask again in samba-it mainling lists, but really seems
> that this is a problem that does not mind to samba developers...
> 
> 
> Someone have some direct contact with some samba developer?
>