samba - Jan 2012 - is winbind needed if i provide unix attributes?

hi, 

short: in a tipical Samba PDC + LDAP environment is winbind needed if i already
fulfill unix attributes?


long: 

i've been runing Samba PDC with LDAP as backend without any problems. my
objects contains both sambaSamAccount and posixAccount (and shadowAccount) with
uid, gid, homedirectory, etc.

i'm setting up another samba server just for file services. in official docs
says i must set up winbind:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-sambadc 

but if i've already got uids and gids i guess i need no mappings. 

is this right? 

can i ignore winbind in my setup? 

regards, 

abosch

On 01/19/2012 03:37 PM, Angel Bosch wrote:
> hi,
>
> short: in a tipical Samba PDC + LDAP environment is winbind needed if i
already fulfill unix attributes?
>
>
> long:
>
> i've been runing Samba PDC with LDAP as backend without any problems.
my objects contains both sambaSamAccount and posixAccount (and shadowAccount)
with uid, gid, homedirectory, etc.
>
> i'm setting up another samba server just for file services. in official
docs says i must set up winbind:
>
>
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-sambadc
>
> but if i've already got uids and gids i guess i need no mappings.
>
> is this right?
>
> can i ignore winbind in my setup?
>
> regards,
>
> abosch
Hi.
We're running s3/LDAP with uid:gid, shell and home directory all in 
LDAP. No winbind anywhere.
HTH
Steve