[Samba] several domain

Sven Bettscheider Sven.Bettscheider at gmx.de
Wed Sep 2 05:39:06 MDT 2009


In this context, I wonder what the response of the winbind daemon looks. 
If it possible to run multiple smbd with multiple winbind daemons. One 
reason could be authenticate to various domains.

azzouz wrote:
> Clément VERET wrote:
>> 2009/9/2 azzouz <azzouz at hymedia.univ-paris8.fr>:
>>  
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> Is it possible for one samba server to manage several domain ( seral
>>> instance) ?
>>>     
>>
>> Just run multiple smbd process with different config file and log dir :
>> smbd -s=$CONFIG_FILE -l=$LOG_PATH -D
>>
>> You need to specify a different interface for each samba server as
>> well. Then, all you have to do is copying the original /etc/init.d/smb
>> file and modify the parameters for your second domain.
>>   
> Great!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Are there some who test this sort of configuration ?
> Don't this cause problems of load and availability  ?
>
> Y.
>


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