freeradius and machine account authentication

[Alan DeKok]

Norbert Wegener <nw at sbs.de> wrote:
> I searched the archives and found this or that discussion about that
> topic in general.  Nevertheless I did not find any hint on how to
> configure freeradius to perform machine

  I typed the following into google:  freeradius-users machine authentication

  The first link was this:

http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20051019.171819.b3193dd3.en.html

  which includes instructions and configuration examples.

> Another question comes up in that context: What job has samba to
> solve here? Must the server, that runs freeradius, be member of the
> active diretory domain and samba is used for this?

  Samba does the Windows login protocol nonsense that FreeRADIUS doesn't.

>  Which version of samba must at least be used?

  The post contains the answer.

  Alan DeKok.