[Samba] Confusion as to how winbind and samba interact

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Unix Service (ANTS) wrote:

> (1) everything I'd read about samba + winbind implied that 
 > the nsswitch.conf was only necessary if you wanted other
 > unix services ( i.e. not samba ) to use winbind

Nope. the nss interface is required by smbd as wel.

> (2) with nsswitch.conf, the change should happen on the 
 > fly i.e. if it's updated everything should start using
 > the new configuration and you shouldn't have to restart
 > daemons to get them to use the new search path -
> why am I not seeing this behaviour with samba/winbind?

You do have to restart because apparently this .so
files are loaded when the app is started.





cheers, jerry
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