Winbind mapping without domain qualification

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Apr 21 16:08:06 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 00:28, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 15:08, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 08:30, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> > > I'll take a look at the CVS versions for 3.0 and 2.2.8 and see if it 
> > > would be possible to do this without too much work.
> > 
> > This configuration option exists in 2.2 already, however it is not
> > compatible with smbd as a fileserver.  (There are subtle assumptions
> > about the operation of each end of the smbd <-> winbind chain in this
> > circumstance).  
> > 
> > This option is however stable and tested in 3.0, and in 2.2 environments
> > where smbd need not run (workstations, mail servers etc).
> 
> Honestly I didn't found any problem running it on file servers, what are
> the problems you are referring to?

Well, I'm just repeating the line that I agreed with jra after the
*last* sambaXP, when this option creped in :-).  I also remember looking
at the patch, and finding some bizarre parts where we had smbd putting
domain\user into the username field, not into the separate places.

Andrew Bartlett

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