[Samba] Mac OS X winbind on Samba domain

[Simon Hobson]

Jim Potter wrote:

>    Has anyone managed to get a Mac (OS X I'm using) to authenticate 
>to a Samba/NT domain? I've been playing with this all day, and am 
>not getting very far - smbd, nmbd and winbind (3.0.2) all run fine, 
>I can see the domain, can connect individually to windows shares, 
>wbinfo shows users (and groups, I assume), but there's no hints as 
>far as what the equivalent to nsswitch.conf (there's no 
>libnss_winbind.so, or /etc/nsswitch.conf). I was hoping to set them 
>up similarly to adding Linux clients, as domain members with 
>automount or something. OS X looks enough like linux to be 
>comfortable, but not enough like it for me to be able to get it to 
>work.

I believe the answer is (probably) a combination of LDAP and 
OpenDirectory (Apples centralised admin system) - though I'm not at 
all sure which bits are OS X Server only and which are avialable in 
the desktop version. You can find manuals at 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107912.

If you look in the OpenDirectory admin guide you will find some 
fairly detailed stuff on what a Mac will look for in a directory 
services server (OpenDirectory is basically an LDAP schema) which 
should help you work out what you want.

Simon

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