I've been using samba for about 5 years; I am currently running a group of servers all running 2.0.7 or thereabouts. I am now in a position where I think I can take advantage of some of the really cool stuff in 2.2.2 - if I interpret the docs correctly. winbind - Am I correct in assuming that if I have one samba box that serves as the domain controller, a second samba box running winbind does not need to have the user database on it, but instead get its uses from the samba PDC? This would help me solve a bad situation I am about to get into. smb.conf - I have a setup where one samba server will act as a login server only (no shares will be mounted from this server). Will specifying utmp record all logins in the utmp file along with host names? pam - can I use winbind (which depends on pam) with encrypt passwords yes? Thanks, --Yan -- Daddy, did all the hair that fell off your head stick to your arms? Akari, age 4 ... oberon.cardhome.lan: 6:00am up 5 days, 10:19, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.31, 0.30
> winbind - Am I correct in assuming that if I have one samba box that > serves as the domain controller, a second samba box running winbind does > not need to have the user database on it, but instead get its uses from > the samba PDC? This would help me solve a bad situation I am about to > get into.You don't need winbind to achive this between Samba-Servers: Put them all in NIS (witch is a good idea for all your unix services (nfs?!), make the pdc nis-master and set the outher samba servers to security = server or domain. Works with 1.19p10 .... winbind is to get user and passwords form an NT PDC. To get only the passwords there are things like pam_smb or so. If you use winbind: I have read on this list, that currently winbind can not ensure that the same user gets the same uid on all unix machines. which is needed for nfs. Christian _(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^