Absolute Basic question Kerberos/LDAP

Hello folks!

As I am just setting up once again a Samba PDC, I was just once again confronted with Kerberos and LDAP as an authentication alternative to the samba-password file-method.

once again i asked wikipedia about those service.
once again actually i did not really understand
- what those services actually do - not as a theory, but what it means in practice!
- what the difference between kerberos and ldap are and why they seem somehow to be linked with each other
- if i would have any benefit from installing them on a server where i act as a pdc-fileserver.

so please: could anybody provide me some VERY BASIC infos about what this is all about?

thank you very much for every peace of info/advice

tom

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