samba - Feb 2002 - Winbind Question...

Hullo All,

Just a simple question...
I planning have an HPUX Server with SaMBa 2.2.3a and Winbind running to
allow WinNT users to login in the server. As far as I know, when WinNT is
down, Winbind doesn't authenticate the users. OK, is there any chance to
Winbind store users in a cache, or something like that?

Thanks


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Demerson Zounar
Analista de Suporte
demerson@zaffari.com.br

I have an interesting question.
I have samba 2.2.3a running on RH 7.2 w/sgi-xfs installed running winbindd.
Everything appears peachy, until I try and change or add users or groups to
the folders in a share. I get Access is denied. However on a text document,
I can change users and groups happily all day long. It would seem to me that
it would be an acl problem but I can't seem to track it down. Could it be
that I'm using the test SGI-XFS system?  (I know it COULD be this, but want
to rule all else out before emailing SGI with a bug).
Any thoughts, advice or opinions would be great!
 
Thanks,
Wade
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After reading the documentation and watching the traffic on my new Samba server,
I believe that in order for winbind to work correctly, it needs to be constantly
able to connect to the main W2K server to retrieve password and username
information.

      My question is: 
        If I cannot assure this constant connection between the servers, is
winbind my best solution for maintaining password and user synchronization?

      My situation:
        I have two offices connected via a VPN which allows all traffic to flow
between the two offices. My main office has a W2K server and I have set up my
remote office with Samba/Winbind.  The Internet connection is not extremely
stable between the offices.  Everytime the connection goes down, even briefly,
users at the remote office lose their connections to the server and are not able
to re-connect without rebooting their PCs.

      The ideal solution:
        I would like to be able to set up winbind (or another program) to check
with the W2K server periodically for updates only (maybe every day), otherwise I
would like it to maintain the usernames and passwords entirely on the Samba
server and not require a connection to the W2K server.

      Relevant smb.conf info:
      # Global parameters
      [global]
              workgroup = SCHEMMER
              netbios name = FS1_CB
              security = DOMAIN
              encrypt passwords = Yes
              password server = *
              winbind uid = 10000-20000
              winbind gid = 10000-20000
              winbind separator = +
              winbind cache time = 86400


      Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

      Jeremy Lahners
      Assistant Manager, I.T.
      The Schemmer Associates Inc.
      http://www.schemmer.com 
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