[Samba] Is windbindd necessary?

[Paul Gienger]

winbind is ONLY necessary if you are participating in a windows
controlled domain and need the users defined on your windows domain to
have permissions/logins on your samba server without having local users
set up and mapped manually.

It sounds like it isn't needed in your situation since you appear to be
running with the Mandrake box as your only server.

Litel Wang wrote:

>I think so .In fact it's used for authentication relay .For example 
>your linux smb client need password check from windows nt or 2000
>domain controler through linux smb server. 
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>>Is it necessary?  I am also confused as to what it does.  If I disable it in
>>the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference.  I am running 6 XP
>>pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server.
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>>Sincerely, 
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>>Matthew J. DiBattista
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