PyAuthenNTLM2 is an authentication module for Apache. It validates a user by means of the NTLM protocol and a separate Domain Controller (or Active Directory server).
The current documentation makes a distinction between "Domain Controller" and "Active Directory server" to indicate the different protocols used for validating a user (SMB vs LDAP).
That is not correct and it is quite misleading: an Active Directory Server is always a Domain Controller.
The documentation should be fixed to include the correct Microsoft terminology.
The current documentation makes a distinction between "Domain Controller" and "Active Directory server" to indicate the different protocols used for validating a user (SMB vs LDAP).
That is not correct and it is quite misleading: an Active Directory Server is always a Domain Controller. The documentation should be fixed to include the correct Microsoft terminology.