Patches for winbindd over TCP and a "failover port" option

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Guenther Deschner wrote:

> hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:57:55PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Our product uses Samba as a component. In our product we were forced to
> > modify certain parts of Samba, namely:
> > 
> > Winbindd running over TCP (to a remote host)

This, of course, can be dangerous unless your internal network is totally 
separate from the outside world. I would imagine that it is in the 
configuration that you guys are using.

Looks like Exanet is about ready to release a product :-)
 
> this sounds very interesting.
>  
> > Smbd listening to an additional "failover" port.  
> > Allow listening on non-broadcast interfaces.
> > 
> > All these changes are very minimal.  In order to comply with the GPL and
> > provide the community with what little code we've modified, attached is
> > the patch file between this version and Samba 3.0a20. 
> 
> you have forgotten to add that patchfile :)
> 
> thanks,
> guenther
> 
> 

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