[Samba] windbindd for resolving addresses on the firewall in a split DNS scenario

[Brian Whitehead]

Winbind is not a name resolver.  It is a daemon that caches user and group
accounts from a WinNT/2K server and then these accounts can be used for
authentication on the Samba server.

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Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Jacob" <jacob_raymond at hotmail.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:29 AM
Subject: [Samba] windbindd for resolving addresses on the firewall in a
split DNS scenario


> I have a firewall that does not support WINS lookup to resolve
> names of windows users behind the firewall on the trusted net.
> Question: Has anyone set up a split DNS where the firewall
> resolves to a Linux box with winbindd and bind in the trusted
> portion of the network? So that
> when the firewall wants to do a reverse lookup of
> 10.10.90.55 the query will return "\\DOMAIN\Blade Runner/10.10.90.55"
> I am assuming this would be slow until cache is
> built up.
>
> Thank you,
> Raymond
> PS: Looking at the samba info page it appears one can ask
> a question without subscribing so if I have breached
> list etiquette forgive me.
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