[Samba] is winbind needed if i provide unix attributes?

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Thu Jan 19 08:15:03 MST 2012


On 01/19/2012 03:37 PM, Angel Bosch wrote:
> hi,
>
> short: in a tipical Samba PDC + LDAP environment is winbind needed if i already fulfill unix attributes?
>
>
> long:
>
> i've been runing Samba PDC with LDAP as backend without any problems. my objects contains both sambaSamAccount and posixAccount (and shadowAccount) with uid, gid, homedirectory, etc.
>
> i'm setting up another samba server just for file services. in official docs says i must set up winbind:
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-sambadc
>
> but if i've already got uids and gids i guess i need no mappings.
>
> is this right?
>
> can i ignore winbind in my setup?
>
> regards,
>
> abosch
Hi.
We're running s3/LDAP with uid:gid, shell and home directory all in 
LDAP. No winbind anywhere.
HTH
Steve



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