[Samba] When to use Winbind ??

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Gary MacKay wrote:

> Am I correct that you only need to run winbind if you have 
> other servers are involved? If all I have is a samba server
> acting as the PDC and that is it, I do not need to run
> winbind, right?

The common reasons to run winbindd are

(a) handling users from windows domains (including trusted ones), and
(b) handling NTLM authentication for Unix processes such as
    pam_winbindd or the ntlm_auth tool.




cheers, jerry
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