[Samba] Why winbind on a Samba Server?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jim C. wrote:
| Is there any good reason to run Winbind on an
| Samba LDAP PDC? I've never used winbind before and
| I'm wondering if there is a reason I should consider
| learning. I suppose one would be better server
| debugging.

Winbindd on a Samba PDC allows you to

a) support trusted domain users and groups
b) support NTLM authenitcation from unix services
such as ntlm_auth and pam_winbind.



chers, jerry
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