[Samba] windbind or ldap ?

[John Drescher]

On 8/7/07, Frederic Descamps <fred at x-tend.be> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if in a full samba environment is it better to use
> winbind or ldap to resolve id's ?
>
> users will connect from windows clients, linux clients with samba or
> also with ssh and nfs maybe.


This depends if you are using active directory. If so I believe you have to
use winbind otherwise you may use just ldap, just winbind or both. In a non
active directory environment we use only ldap for years.

John