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MealstroM
Asked: 2010-06-11 00:40:27 +0800 CST

How to set Windows to use an external RADIUS server for user authentication to share folder?

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Is it possible and if so how, to make users use an external RADIUS server to connect to Windows shares?

windows share radius

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    I don't think that this can be done. Windows itself only uses AD to authorize and authenticate users. The only way that I think this could be done would be if you had another system using Kerberos, that could use RADIUS as the user backend, and then make a trust between your Windows AD and the Kerberos domain. I don't know if such a product exists.

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  2. Assuming by Windows Shares you want something CIFS compatible...

    In which case the best route might be to start a Samba server and configure it to use RADIUS Auth, which is well supported by smbd.

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