From 1e38808dcc44d43ae5c7a200b6e34515875aaeda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Allison Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:22:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add "smb encrypt" to smb.conf. Jeremy. --- smbdotconf/security/smbencrypt.xml | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 smbdotconf/security/smbencrypt.xml diff --git a/smbdotconf/security/smbencrypt.xml b/smbdotconf/security/smbencrypt.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb91ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/smbdotconf/security/smbencrypt.xml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + + + + This is a new feature introduced with Samba 3.2 and above. It is an + extension to the SMB/CIFS protocol negotiated as part of the UNIX extensions. + SMB encryption uses the GSSAPI (SSPI on Windows) ability to encrypt + and sign every request/response in a SMB protocol stream. When + enabled it provides a secure method of SMB/CIFS communication, + similar to an ssh protected session, but using SMB/CIFS authentication + to negotiate encryption and signing keys. Currently this is only + supported by Samba 3.2 smbclient, and hopefully soon Linux CIFSFS + and MacOS/X clients. Windows clients do not support this feature. + + + This controls whether the server offers or requires + the client it talks to to use SMB encryption. Possible values + are auto, mandatory + and disabled. This may be set on a per-share + basis, but clients may chose to encrypt the entire session, not + just traffic to a specific share. If this is set to mandatory + then all traffic to a share must must + be encrypted once the connection has been made to the share. + The server would return "access denied" to all non-encrypted + requests on such a share. Selecting encrypted traffic reduces + throughput as smaller packet sizes must be used (no huge UNIX + style read/writes allowed) as well as the overhead of encrypting + and signing all the data. + + + If SMB encryption is selected, Windows style SMB signing (see + the option) is no longer necessary, + as the GSSAPI flags use select both signing and sealing of the data. + + + When set to auto, SMB encryption is offered, but not enforced. + When set to mandatory, SMB encryption is required and if set + to disabled, SMB encryption can not be negotiated. + + +auto + -- 2.34.1