Is it necessary? I am also confused as to what it does. If I disable it in the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference. I am running 6 XP pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server. Sincerely, Matthew J. DiBattista Matthew J. DiBattista Information <http://www.ittechs.com/> Technology Technicians
I think so .In fact it's used for authentication relay .For example your linux smb client need password check from windows nt or 2000 domain controler through linux smb server. Litel ======================================>Is it necessary? I am also confused as to what it does. If I disable it in>the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference. I am running 6 XP >pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server. > >Sincerely, > >Matthew J. DiBattista > >Matthew J. DiBattista >Information <http://www.ittechs.com/> Technology Technicians > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Matthew J. DiBattista wrote:> Is it necessary? I am also confused as to what it does. If I disable it in > the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference. I am running 6 XP > pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server.As far as I know, it is - winbindd is the component that does lookups by SID. -- Michael D. Jurney mike@jurney.org
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 22:00, Matthew J. DiBattista wrote:> Is it necessary? I am also confused as to what it does. If I disable it in > the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference. I am running 6 XP > pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server.There are few reasons to run winbindd, of which the following is one: If you have a a real M$ DOMAIN, and this machine you are using is a home server for the clients. It will need to create the homedirs and accounts and groups for the users. And then do auth-relay to the domain. There are other reasons but that is the main one. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20040428/c8592819/attachment.bin