winbindd architecture
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jul 11 17:45:01 GMT 2002
"Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> Anyway, if the unexpected.tdb is the reason that winbindd needs nmbd, then
> I think it could be made optional. I imagine that winbindd would be
> sending regular name queries in order to find the PDC, probably looking
> for <ntdomain>#1B. The 1B address is actually the DMB identifier, but in
> Windows the DMB and PDC must be the same node. It is possible that a Node
> Status query is also being sent, to verify that the 1B node also has the
> 1C name registered (1C means "I am an NT Domain Controller). That could
> be an issue with a Samba DMB. If that's the case, though, W/95 can't be a
> PDC anyway so not getting a reply shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Again, I'm not in sync with the discussion so if that's totally bogus
> please disregard.
We have to node status to get the *name* of the PDC, becouse the
NETLOGON RPC requires that. Windows machines to a NETLOGON Mailslot
message, but we don't do that at present.
Andrew Bartlett
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