Winbind and Gecos field ...

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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C.Lee Taylor wrote:
| But this still leaves me with an empty gecos field, so I continued to
| search, which lead me to winbindd_rpc.c and more questions, how will I
| know if winbind is using rpc or ads? ... Does this depond on how you
| joined the domain, or how well the DC communicates?

If this is our domain, then the type of communication is
controlled by the security parameter.

If it is a trusted domain, then we use rpc for all mixed
mode and NT4 domains.  LDAP (and some rpc calls) is used
for native mode AD domains.

btw...there's a related bug reported at

~  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597



cheers, jerry
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