1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

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Because NTLM is embedded in the application protocol, it does not have transport dependencies of its own.

NTLM is used for authentication by several application protocols, including server message block [MS-SMB] (SMB), and [MS-NTHT] (HTTP). For an example of how NTLM is used in SMB, see section 4.

Other protocols invoke NTLM as a function library. The interface to that library is specified in GSS-API [RFC2743]. The NTLM implementation of GSS-API calls is specified in section 3.4.6.<4>