[Samba] RE: Winbind on HPUX11, Totally Stuck, Please Help

[Michael Steffens]

Ronan Waide wrote:
> On January 28, Andrew_Esh at adaptec.com said:
> 
>>I don't have HPUX, so I don't know what to suggest for that. I just know
>>getent won't work without winbindd in nsswitch.conf on Linux.
> 
> 
> I think the point that was being made is that NSS support on HPUX only
> supports a few known types, of which one is LDAP. The discussion was
> basically about faking out the system so that what it thinks is LDAP
> is actually winbind.

Yep. It's a HP-UX specific workaround. Please ignore it
everywhere else.

Michael