There is a program called VNC (virtual network computing --
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/) which is basically an opensourced
cross-platform replacement for pc anywhere type software. It's excellent.
But it's authentication is lacking. It asks for a single password, and
has no support for usernames (at least none that is useful to me).
VNC is distributed under the GPL.
Sanba has the ability to authenticate against a windows NT domain, and is
also distributed under the GPL.
Last night I downloaded the source to samba, and started looking around.
I obviously have no idea what I'm doing. I believe I found the stuff I
need, but have no clue what to do with it.
I believe that there would be many uses for an opensourced, well
documented library specifically to do authentication against an NT domain.
Maybe this already exists, but I figure it would have been used in samba
if it did.
So basically what I'm asking is, can the bits used to authenticate against
an NT domain bedocumented thoroughly ? Maybe even packaged
independantly ?
And if you feel like merging the code into VNC, I certainly wouldn't
object :) (it is the windows version I'm interested in)
This capability may be the factor which decides wheither or not my
co-workers and I will continue to be allowed to use VNC.
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