[Samba] Samba + Winbind help

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:39:03 -0500
Mike Hobbs via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We do not have two domains but we do have two active directory
> servers for the same domain, gotta have a backup/spare!  I assumed we
> needed an entry for each server.

ER no, you just need one and you use the NetBIOS domain name, not a
FQDN or DNS domain.

> 
> A lot of the options in my current smb.conf file I believe are
> defaults and can be removed, most of my file is legacy hold over
> stuff from a long time ago, like the "wide links" option.  At one
> point we needed it for AMD (auto mount daemon)  to work correctly.
> Since we moved to autofs we may not actually need it.
> 
> I know NIS is old, I can not turn it off.  We actually use it for our 
> Linux authentication.  This will change at some point, probably
> should have moved to something else years ago.

If you are running Samba that will do your Linux Authentication, what
do you think the idmap config lines are for ?

Rowland