[Samba] Winbindd on FreeBSD 4.10 Help

[Ilia Chipitsine]

FreeBSD supports nsswitch technology since 5.1R

> Even with linux compatibilty installed it has no nsswitch support? I
> thought if you installed linux compatibilty then nsswitch support works.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Mewburn [mailto:lukem-samba at mewburn.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:55 PM
> To: Elijah Savage
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Winbindd on FreeBSD 4.10 Help
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:30:35PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote:
>  | Yes I did edit the nsswitch.conf just as you have it which looks
> just
>  | like the way it does in the book.
>
> FreeBSD 4.10 doesn't appear to have nsswitch support, at least on the
> version I have installed under VMware.
>
> FreeBSD 5.x should have nsswitch support.  The original import of
> nsswitch into FreeBSD 5.x (from NetBSD) didn't have support for dynamic
> nsswitch modules, so you couldn't use winbind.
>
> I understand that FreeBSD 5.3 has dynamic nsswitch support, but as I've
> been unable to install 5.3 under VMware I cannot confirm this.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke.
>
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