Interoperability With Windows 2000

Understanding the Terminology

In broad strokes, that is how the Kerberos authentication protocol works and both implementations under discussion have virtually identical conceptual frameworks. Of course there are mechanical differences -for example, the HP’s implementation uses configuration files to locate host systems and the Microsoft implementation uses strictly DNS lookup to resolve host names. But both implementations are written to RFC 1510 and RFC 1964, and hence interoperate.

The next section, “Table of Analogous Terms” on page 54 lists the difference in the terminologies used.

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