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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-07-16 05:34:56 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-07-16 05:34:56 +0000
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xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
<listitem>
<para>This parameter determines whether or not <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> will attempt to authenticate users using the NTLM password hash.
- If disabled, only the lanman password hashes will be used.</para>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> will attempt to
+ authenticate users using the NTLM encrypted password response.
+ If disabled, either the lanman password hash or an NTLMv2 response
+ will need to be sent by the client.</para>
- <para>Please note that at least this option or <command moreinfo="none">lanman auth</command> should
- be enabled in order to be able to log in.</para>
+ <para>If this option, and <command moreinfo="none">lanman
+ auth</command> are both disabled, then only NTLMv2 logins will be
+ permited. Not all clients support NTLMv2, and most will require
+ special configuration to us it.</para>
<para>Default : <command moreinfo="none">ntlm auth = yes</command></para>
</listitem>