[Samba] I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me?

[Greg Dickie]

They are seen as different users. Thats the thing if you have all the same 
users in AD and /etc/passwd then you don't need winbind.

Greg

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 08:51 am, David Gadoury wrote:
> One thing that I am not clear on as of yet, is how winbind will handle
> the fact that I have duplicate users on both my Linux machines and on my
> W2K domain, user1 in AD and user1 in /etc/passwd
>
> -dG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Dickie [mailto:greg at justaguy.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:40 PM
> To: trogl at shaw.ca; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me?
>
>
> Hi,
>
>   winbind is used to "import" accounts from a windows machine. If all
> your
> accounts already exist on the samba machine then you don't need winbind.
> If
> you had a disjoint set of users on the samba machine and the windows
> machine
> then you would be able to see the union set by using winbind.
>
> Does that help at all?
> Greg
>
> On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:09, trogl at shaw.ca wrote:
> > I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain.  User
> > accounts have the same name in both domain.  I was having all sorts of
> > trouble when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up.
> >
> > I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing
>
> causing
>
> > it to crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly everything
>
> started
>
> > working perfectly.
> >
> > The docs say you MUST run winbindd.
> >
> > I'm confused.
>
> --
> Greg Dickie
> just a guy
> greg at justaguy.ca

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