Question on winbind

[gcarter at valinux.com]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> I read the paper on winbind that's on the samba site, and 
> I have some questions:
> 
> 1)When will winbind be in a stable release (2.2.x ?)

Wont be the initial 2.2.0 release.  We trying to get it
in as soon as we can.  It involves porting some client 
RPC calls from the old TNG branch into the 2.2 branch.
Tim has been working on trying to automate this.

> 2)What does winbind do regarding home directories ?

> It would be very nice if it mounted the users home 
> directory from the PDC (espescially in the case of a 
> samba PDC!).

The home directories are normal filesystems.  If you want
to mount a remote filesystems over SMB, you'll need 
to look at smbfs.  Otherwise you can just create a local
home directory and do a "chown 'DOMAIN\user' $HOME".
See the winbind man page for smb.conf details.


> 3)From what I have read, winbind replaces pam_smb, but 
> will it also support / replace auth_smb (for use in a 
> squid proxy for example).

Never used auth_smb.





Cheers, jerry
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