[Samba] Re: Using Winbindd in nsswitch.conf

Chris de Vidal cdevidal at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 28 23:07:55 GMT 2003


As I said below, winbind.

/dev/idal
 
--- Jonathan Johnson <jon at sutinen.com> wrote:
> To restate the question: should the line in
> nsswitch.conf have 'wins',
> 'winbind', or 'winbindd'?? Assume that everything
> else is correctly
> configured, the syntax is all I want to know.
> 
> --Jon
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> > --- Jonathan Johnson <jon at sutinen.com> wrote:
> > > I've a question regarding using WINS for
> resolving
> > > names while on the unix box
> <snip>
> > > hosts:      files wins nisplus nis dns
> > > hosts:      files winbind nisplus nis dns
> > > hosts:      files winbindd nisplus nis dns
> > > 
> > > Which is correct? (I'm not using nis, so I
> guess
> > > > those could be removed but
> > > > they aren't hurting anything by being there.)
> > >
> > > winbind; nisplus and nis can indeed be removed
> if
> > not
> > > used.
> > <snip>
> > > Sometimes there is no link called
> > > /lib/libnss_winbind.so.2
> > > created, which links to
> > > /lib/libnss_winbind.so
> > > so you might need to create one.
> > 
> > Thanks for this tip; I'll watch out for that.

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