Coming back to samba - questions on new technology

[Christian Barth]

> winbind - Am I correct in assuming that if I have one samba box that
> serves as the domain controller, a second samba box running winbind does
> not need to have the user database on it, but instead get its uses from
> the samba PDC?  This would help me solve a bad situation I am about to
> get into.
You don't need winbind to achive this between Samba-Servers: Put them 
all in NIS (witch is a good idea for all your unix services (nfs?!), 
make the pdc nis-master and set the outher samba servers to security 
= server or domain. Works with 1.19p10 ....

winbind is to get user and passwords form an NT PDC. To get only the 
passwords there are things like pam_smb or so.

If you use winbind: I have read on this list, that currently winbind 
can not ensure that the same user gets the same uid on all unix 
machines. which is needed for nfs.

Christian

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