NAME

Authen::Smb - Perl extension to authenticate against an SMB server

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use Authen::Smb;
my $authResult = Authen::Smb::authen('myUser', 
                                     'myPassword',
                                     'myPDC',
                                     'myBDC',
                                     'myNTDomain');
if ( $authResult == Authen::Smb::NO_ERROR ) {
  print "User successfully authenticated.\n";
} else {
  print "User not authenticated with error level $authResult\n";
}
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Authen::Smb allows you to authenticate a user against an NT domain. You can specify both a primary and a backup server to use for authentication. The NT names of the machines should be used for specifying servers.

An authentication request will return one of four values:

NTV_NO_ERROR (0) NTV_SERVER_ERROR (1) NTV_PROTOCOL_ERROR (2) NTV_LOGON_ERROR (3)

NTV_NO_ERROR is the only return value possible for a successful authentication. All other return values indicate failure, of one sort or another.

EXPORT_OK constants

            

              
              
NTV_LOGON_ERROR
NTV_NO_ERROR
NTV_PROTOCOL_ERROR
NTV_SERVER_ERROR
            
          

AUTHOR

Patrick Michael Kane, modus@pr.es.to Based on the smbval library from the samba package

SEE ALSO

perl(1).