[Samba] samba pdc without winbindd

[simo]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:28 +0530, mallapadi niranjan wrote:
> Hi Gordon ,.
> 
> 
> But According to samba documentation, nested groups doesn't work is
> mentioned,
> 
> "In Samba-3, the group management system is based on POSIX groups. This
> means that Samba makes use of the posixGroup ObjectClass. For now, there is
> no NT-like group system management (global and local groups). Samba-3 knows
> only about Domain Groups and, unlike MS Windows 2000 and Active Directory,
> Samba-3 does not support nested groups"
> 
> as i have all domain groups and no local groups. using winbind, when we
> create local groups
> we can have nested groups, but if there domain groups, is nested groups
> possible ?

http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/groupmapping.html#id2563279

nested groups are provided to the system via nss_winbind

Simo.

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