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LinuxWorld: Doing the NIS/NT Samba

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 1998

By Jeremy Allison, member of the SAMBA development team.

This article explains how Windows NT domain security actually
works and the benefits this code brings to a Samba configuration.
Jeremy also provides a short tutorial on how to configure this new
Samba feature, and discusses a significant security flaw in
Microsoft’s Authenticated RPC Protocol.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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