Michael Gasch
2004-Sep-07 11:44 UTC
[Samba] [HELP] understanding winbind smb.conf parameters
hi list, may be it's a stupid question, because it's written in smb.conf but i don't understand the description of the following parameters ** winbind enum users (G) On large installations using winbindd(8) it may be necessary to suppress the enumeration of users through the setpwent(),getpwent() andendpwent() group of system calls. If the winbind enum users parameter isno, calls to the getpwent system call will not return any data. Warning Turning off user enumeration may cause some programs to behave oddly. For example, the finger program relies on having access to the full user list when searching for matching usernames. ** winbind trusted domains only (G) This parameter is designed to allow Samba servers that are members of a Samba controlled domain to use UNIX accounts distributed via NIS, rsync, or LDAP as the uid's for winbindd users in the hosts primary domain. Therefore, the user DOMAIN\user1 would be mapped to the account user1 in /etc/passwd instead of allocating a new uid for him or her. Default: winbind trusted domains only = no ** winbind use default domain (G) This parameter specifies whether thewinbindd(8) daemon should operate on users without domain component in their username. Users without a domain component are treated as is part of the winbindd server's own domain. While this does not benifit Windows users, it makes SSH, FTP and e-mail function in a way much closer to the way they would in a native unix system. Default: winbind use default domain = no Example: winbind use default domain = yes i mean, i'm able to translate it but i don't understand it :-/ have you examples or could you be so kind to enlight me? my setup 1x samba PDC (with ldap) 1x samba BDC (with ldap) 1x samba DM (with winbind, getting users/groups from ldap via nss_ldap) thank you very much !!!!!!!!! -- "Matrix - more than a vision" ************************************************** Michael Gasch - Central IT Department - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig Germany **************************************************