samba - Apr 2001 - winbindd mapping table share?

Hi!

Winbind looks like the program which can solve many of my problems. :)

But it seems to me there is one big limitation: each Unix client has its
own mapping table. The problem is that with many Unix clients, each
client will map differently the association rid-uid, and it is a huge
problem to share data over NFS!

So my questions are: 
1) am I wrong? (i hope)
2) is there a means to share this table? *
   (via NFS or NIS for instance)
or better
3) is it possible to have only one winbindd which is accessed by all
nsswitches and pam?

thanks a lot!

Benoit

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Beno?t FRIRY
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 03:52:57 Benoit Friry wrote:
>
> But it seems to me there is one big limitation: each 
> Unix client has its own mapping table. The problem is that 
> with many Unix clients, each client will map differently 
> the association rid-uid, and it is a huge
> problem to share data over NFS!
> 
> So my questions are: 
> 1) am I wrong? (i hope)
Nope.  You are correct.
> 2) is there a means to share this table? *
>    (via NFS or NIS for instance) or better
Not currently.
> 3) is it possible to have only one winbindd which is 
> accessed by all nsswitches and pam?
I'm working on this, but the solution si about 6 months out 
right now.  





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