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FILL BLANK What option of smbclient causes smbclient to use Kerberos when authenticating to a remote SMB server? (Specify ONLY the option name without any values or parameters.) Answer: kerberos
The correct answer is A. kerberos. --kerberos (or -k) is the option that instructs smbclient to use Kerberos authentication instead of the default NTLM when connecting to a remote SMB server. This is useful in Active Directory environments where Kerberos is the preferred, more secure authentication protocol…
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--kerberos (or -k) is the option that instructs smbclient to use Kerberos authentication instead of the default NTLM when connecting to a remote SMB server. This is useful in Active Directory environments where Kerberos is the preferred, more secure authentication protocol. Since this is a fill-in-the-blank question with only one answer, there are no distractors to address - option A is simply the correct and only choice.
Memory tip: Think "K for Kerberos, K for Kerberos flag" - the short form -k mirrors the first letter of the protocol itself, making it easy to recall.
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