congrats and thanks!
 -- richard

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Gordon Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to help from authors (there were many!) and reviewers and
> advocates, the SMB server can now do normal, Active Directory
> (AD)-style authentication, using connection-less LDAP queries to find
> the correct AD server, using Kerberos to authenticate the client, etc.
> This also closes a four year old bug:
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1087
> 
> This push represents quite a bit of work beyond what was in the
> original OpenSolaris code.  The changes add up to over ten thousand
> lines of new code, or about fifteen thousand changed lines (according
> to webrev).
> 
> One caution:  After this, quite a lot of the on-line "advice" you'll
> find about administering the SMB service is out of date and now wrong.
> In particular, advice about OpenSolaris and adjusting lmauth_level no
> longer applies to illumos.  Similarly, one should now _disregard_
> advice about changes on the Windows side to "dumb down" the security
> levels it uses to connect to our SMB service, because we now can do
> full Kerberos authentication etc.
> 
> Thanks to Nexenta Systems (www.nexenta.com) for supporting the effort
> to upstream this major piece of work.
> 
> Gordon Ross
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Gordon Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi developers,
>> 
>> I plan to RTI the three change sets below soon (probably this weekend).
>> If you plan to review them, please finish up, or ask for more time.
>> 
>> 6352 Updated DC locator for SMB and idmap
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/6352
>> http://ma.nexenta.com/gwr/dclocate/
>> 
>> 6351 Update smbsrv dtrace scripts and install them
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/6351
>> http://ma.nexenta.com/gwr/smbdtrace/
>> 
>> 1122 smbsrv should use SPNEGO (inbound authentication)
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1122
>> http://ma.nexenta.com/gwr/extsec/
> 
> 



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