Kerberos-based authentication
Use Kerberos-based authentication for universal shares to secure the connection between clients and servers. All the Kerberos security types krb5, krb5i, and krb5p are supported for the universal share configuration.
You must follow these steps to configure the Kerberos authentication for universal shares.
Table:
Step | Task | Description |
|---|---|---|
1. | Configure the Active Directory-based authentication. | For information on how to add storage servers to the Active Directory domain, See Active Directory-based authentication. |
2. | On Windows Active Directory domain server, create Active Directory users for Kerberos authentication. | See Creating Active Directory users for Kerberos authentication . |
3. | Register Kerberos principals to KDC database. | See Registering the Kerberos principals to the KDC database. |
4. | Configure Kerberos-based authentication on the servers. | See Configuring the Kerberos-based authentication on the servers and the clients. |