I have a samba server for company file shares but we do not use domain services or active directory service. Each workstation is its own standalone system. (And we want to keep it this way.) I would like to have some centralized authentication though, and it looks like Kerberos will provide that. After a lot of searching though, I can't find any instructions for setting up samba to authenticate users using kerberos without an ADS (active directory service) or domain. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance to anyone that can point me in the right direction.

hello

you should be able to use Kerberos with LDAP without needing AD

try here:
http://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/Kerberos