samba - Nov 2002 - using winbind without a PDC

Hello

Can someone tell me whether it is possible to use winbind on a simple windows
workgroup (i.e. with no NT domain and hence no PDC). I *thought* I saw it work
in samba 2.2.3 but now I am on 2.2.6 and the winbindd daemon won't start up
- it loops forever in the initialization trying to contact the PDC.

All I want to do is configure nsswitch.conf to resolve hostnames with netbios
broadcast. If there is a simpler way than winbind, I'd be interested to know
about it.

--- Andy

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On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:50, Andy Fish wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Can someone tell me whether it is possible to use winbind on a simple
windows workgroup (i.e. with no NT domain and hence no PDC). I *thought* I saw
it work in samba 2.2.3 but now I am on 2.2.6 and the winbindd daemon won't
start up - it loops forever in the initialization trying to contact the PDC.
> 
i don't think so
> All I want to do is configure nsswitch.conf to resolve hostnames with
netbios broadcast. If there is a simpler way than winbind, I'd be interested
to know about it.
i don't know any way to do this - but it just sounds like a bad idea to
me...

use dhcp and a dynamic dns for this.
(and make samba a wins server too)

brad