samba - Dec 2003 - I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me?

I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain.  User
accounts have the same name in both domain.  I was having all sorts of trouble
when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up.

I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing causing it to
crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly everything started working
perfectly.

The docs say you MUST run winbindd.

I'm confused.

Hi,

  winbind is used to "import" accounts from a windows machine. If all
your
accounts already exist on the samba machine then you don't need winbind. If 
you had a disjoint set of users on the samba machine and the windows machine 
then you would be able to see the union set by using winbind.

Does that help at all?
Greg 

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:09, trogl@shaw.ca wrote:
> I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain.  User
> accounts have the same name in both domain.  I was having all sorts of
> trouble when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up.
>
> I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing causing
> it to crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly everything started
> working perfectly.
>
> The docs say you MUST run winbindd.
>
> I'm confused.
-- 
Greg Dickie
just a guy
greg@justaguy.ca

Along these same lines, I don't have winbind running as of yet (in part
due to time constraints and in part due a bit of confusion of winbind
configuration) but am still able to interact w/ my W2K domain.  The only
negative is that the connections to Samba from XP clients is very slow,
taking up to a minute for the connection to be made.  I'm
assuming/hoping that getting winbind up and running will resolve this.

-dG

-----Original Message-----
From: trogl@shaw.ca [mailto:trogl@shaw.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:09 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me?

I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain.  User
accounts have the same name in both domain.  I was having all sorts of
trouble when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up.

I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing
causing it to crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly
everything started working perfectly.

The docs say you MUST run winbindd.

I'm confused.

One thing that I am not clear on as of yet, is how winbind will handle
the fact that I have duplicate users on both my Linux machines and on my
W2K domain, user1 in AD and user1 in /etc/passwd

-dG

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Dickie [mailto:greg@justaguy.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:40 PM
To: trogl@shaw.ca; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me?


Hi,

  winbind is used to "import" accounts from a windows machine. If all
your 
accounts already exist on the samba machine then you don't need winbind.
If 
you had a disjoint set of users on the samba machine and the windows
machine 
then you would be able to see the union set by using winbind.

Does that help at all?
Greg 

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:09, trogl@shaw.ca wrote:
> I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain.  User
> accounts have the same name in both domain.  I was having all sorts of
> trouble when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up.
>
> I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing
causing
> it to crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly everything
started
> working perfectly.
>
> The docs say you MUST run winbindd.
>
> I'm confused.
-- 
Greg Dickie
just a guy
greg@justaguy.ca