[Samba] winbind and NIS+NFS

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Harry wrote:

> Does winbind play well with NIS (or vice versa)? In my initial test, it
> doesn't seem that a machine that is running winbind will serve the user list
> over NIS to NIS clients.

There is no winbindd<->NIS gateway.  It has been considered, but we're 
developing an alternative solution using an LDAP backend for winbindd 
in Samba 3.0.




cheers, jerry
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