[Samba] NT4-Style Auth & Roaming Profiles Only?

[Rowland penny]

On 26/07/16 16:59, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:09:10 +0100
> Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 26/07/16 15:31, Jim Seymour wrote:
>>> Hi There,
>>>
>>> Tried a Samba AD.  Didn't work out.  Please do not suggest.
>>> Thanks!
>> Why didn't Samba AD work, what problems did you have, it might be
>> easier to fix them.
> It's a long and ugly story, which I'm not going to recount.  If you're
> really interested, I'm sure you can find the answer in the archives.

I remember it now, it started last September ( see here: 
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-September/194047.html) and it 
could have been the longest running thread on here and you still 
couldn't get it to work.


>
> [snip]
>> Have you tried just running winbindd ? you don't have to configure it.
> Can't run winbind and nscd.  sssd does a better job of what nscd does
> than does winbind.  Thus the sssd question.

Yes, if you run winbindd, you shouldn't run nscd. sssd does a lot more 
than what nscd does and the only place that sssd does a better job than 
winbindd, is on a DC.

>> It might help if you could post your smb.conf file.
> [snip]
>
> Very well.  I'll trim out the cruft and so so.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

Don't bother on my account with the smb.conf, as I will not be wasting 
any more time on your posts. I spent too much time last time.

Rowland