Winbind working, but...

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Tue Oct 23 18:52:02 GMT 2001


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Rogelio J. Baucells wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have had winbind working without any problem for several weeks, but I
> have a couple of problems with mail delivery and an error when a user
> logs in the linux box using ssh, telnet or a simple "su -l
> domain\\username"

As far as I can tell this all boils down to the selection of the "best"
winbind separator character.
'\' has special meaning every where, BUT it is the windows default.
'+' has special meaning to sendmail.

If you are 100% certain that '.' or '_' are not ever going to be in your
usernames then try one of them.

Yours Tony.

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