[Samba] File server questions

Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 12:43:37 UTC 2017


If your machine is an ntp client (but not running the ntp daemon) , the 
ntpdate command will attempt to connect to the ntp server and update time.

On my client machines, I don't run ntp as a svc, instead I just have a 
cron job that tries to update time twice a day.

On 09/14/17 08:32, Flávio Silveira via samba wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just to confirm, I don't think there is a way to test if ntp is setup 
> properly, right?
>
> Moving forward to Winbindd config as describe here: 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configuring_Winbindd_on_a_Samba_AD_DC
>
> It seems I just need to edit nsswitch.conf and add winbind to passwd 
> and group databases, correct?
>
> The guide says tipically no configuration is required in smb.conf for 
> Winbindd to work.
>
> I don't think I want to have every user home on my servers, my plan is 
> to force them to use the shares, which is the last step in the guide, 
> hopefully I won't bother soon :-)
>
> Thank you
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