[Samba] Using a backslash as winbind separator

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Jun 23 12:57:30 UTC 2019


On 23/06/2019 13:21, Stefan Froehlich via samba wrote:
> Completly separated from the other thread I have a minor question
> about the "winbind separator" configuration. If I want to use the \
> as a separator (and I do), how should this be reflected in smb.conf?
> The only thing which came to my mind and worked is quoting the
> backslash with another one:
>
> | winbind separator = \\
>
Do you mean something like this:

getent passwd rowland
SAMDOM\rowland:*:10000:10000::/home/rowland:/bin/bash

If so, that's easy, as '\' is the default, remove the 'winbind 
separator' line from smb.conf ;-)

Rowland






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