[Samba] Mail Problems...

[Christian Barth]

> sorry, i can't help you with your answer but i need to ask you some newbie questions. Is Winbind used for authenticating between Windows client and the Linux server? i am not using it to authenticate sendmail and my clients are all Outlook express. Is there a need to install Winbind? I need to 
understand what Winbind is used ofr before i decide. Thanks

winbind is use a an additional authentication source for unix/linux. 
To understand it, start with /etc/nsswitch.conf and compare the new 
winbind possibility with the well knowen possibility nis; look at 
passwd and group in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Then look at pam to 
understand that different unix services (login, pop3, ssh, samba) can 
have a different authentisication.

In short:
winbind is needed if your user base is on an NT PDC and you want to 
authenticate unix services against it. If you only want samba to deal 
with a NT PDC (for example a pure file server with no direct user 
access) set "security = domain" in smb.conf, set up a "add user 
script" in smb.conf and claer up old, no longer used accounts by hand 
form time to time.

Christian



> 
> Dan
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Julio Rojas 
>   To: samba at lists.samba.org 
>   Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:46 AM
>   Subject: [Samba] Mail Problems...
> 
> 
>   Hi... After all our work trying to authenticate sendmail via Winbind, we have a weird problem right now... The user authentication, and the connection to both POP3 and SMTP is very slow, except for my own computer, that works very fast... And my computer is the only one in 1000+ clients... 
FYI, I use Outlook Express 6, but everyone at my office use it also... So, I don't think the problem is related to email clients... Sometimes, is so slow to download email, that Outlook (not the Express one) just give up...
> 
>   Second, on /var/spool/mail all the mailboxes have different owners from the real ones... Except for a couple of accounts (mine included, but also people whose clients are very slow to download and send email) all these files have different owners from the real ones...
> 
>   Have you ever seen this problems??? 
> 
>   Thanx for your help...
>   ---------------------------------------
>   Julio Rojas
>   Coordinador de Redes
>   Universidad Fermín Toro
>   Barquisimeto, Venezuela
> 


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