[Samba] Winbind & Samba 2.2.7a on FreeBSD

[Jerry Murdock]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfram A. Kraushaar" <w_k at gmx.net>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: [Samba] Winbind & Samba 2.2.7a on FreeBSD


> Hello all,
>
> I've got a weird problem with a fresh install of Samba
> from the FreeBSD ports collection (btw. the BSD-box is
> also a fresh 4.7 Stable install).
>
> Configured Samba 2.2.7a
> - without cups
> - with winbind
> - with winbind-auth
> - with audit
> so far, the installation seemed to work fine...
>
> Then I copied the libnss_winbind.so to /usr/lib
> and softlinked it to /usr/local/lib as well as
> to the other files mentioned in the howto (with
> the .so.1 and .so.2 endings). FreeBSD has no /lib
> directory, so I used the ones below /usr and /usr/local.
>


libnss_winbind and therefore the auto-magic account mapping won't work on
FreeBSD because FBSD doesn't have functioning nss support.

The winbindd daemon runs fine, but is relegated to being used as a PAM
auth source, or Squid auth source due to the lack of nss support in the
OS.

Jerry