[Samba] winbind behavior question

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Mike Thomas wrote:

> I just have some general winbind confusion that I need cleared up I guess...
>
> I've setup winbind using the 'winbind use default domain = yes'
> parameter to get rid of the domain prefix, and winbind is functioning
> perfectly, long with all nsswitch operations such as getent, getpwnam,
> etc etc. My problem is however, and this may be the behavior intended,
> is that when I try to actually connect to a share that has a valid users
> or admin users line to it, it still tries to look for the user to be
> listed as DOMAIN+user (+ being the seperator) even though the 'winbind
> use default domain' option is set to yes. Is this the intended behavior?

Yes.  'winbind use default domain is should only be considered to be
of use to pam_winbind.  You have to specify fully qualified domain\user
name formats in smb.conf.




cheers, jerry
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