Authenticating against Win2k8r2 without ntlm_auth

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Thomas Smith <theitsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Likewise Enterprise to provide AD integration

> While Samba 3.5 and Likewise 6 fixed the problems authenticating
> against Win2k8r2, Likewise removed support for Samba/Winbind in their
> 6.x series product (they included full support for Samba/Winbind in
> their 5.x series product)--they now use their own libraries to provide
> "winbind" functionality. The result of this is that the Samba-included
> ntlm_auth no longer works (and Likewise doesn't provide a comparable
> replacement)--since my FreeRADIUS install was using ntlm_auth for AD
> authentication and authorization, it is no longer working.
>
> So I'm looking at alternate ways of authenticating against Win2k8r2. I
> was hoping to get some input from the list regarding this.

Why not bypass Likewise?

If another windows server is able to join the domain directly, then a
Linux machine with samba can surely join the same domain without
needing Likewise or some other third-party integration tool.

-- 
Fajar