samba - Mar 2011 - Winbindd where to use it ? in which environnement ?

Dear

I need help about know what is the real necessary to use Winbindd
daemon ?

After reading many wikis it seems that you need to use Winbindd only
when you need to connect samba to any "Microsoft Windows NT domains"
such has NT4 PDC or Active Directory.

Is it true that you "did not need" winbindd when you want Samba act
has
a Primary Domain Controller ?

Best regards and thanks for your help.

If you have domain with the following specs-  you do not need winbind
     - samba PDC
     - no samba member servers
     - samba BDC's optional
     - no trusted domains


You would need winbind in any of  following cases-
     -  you have a Samba PDC but you need to trust Windows domains
    -  you have a Samba server that is a member of a domain.

In the two cases above-  winbind allocates and manages  unix uid's and 
gid's for the accounts from windows domains.

You may also need winbind if you have a samba PDC but also samba member 
server(s)-  again, to allocate unix uid's and gid's for users from the 
domain  (this depends on if you have a command LDAP/NIS backend for unix 
accounts.)



On 03/25/2011 04:21 PM, David Touzeau wrote:
> Dear
>
> I need help about know what is the real necessary to use Winbindd
> daemon ?
>
> After reading many wikis it seems that you need to use Winbindd only
> when you need to connect samba to any "Microsoft Windows NT
domains"
> such has NT4 PDC or Active Directory.
>
> Is it true that you "did not need" winbindd when you want Samba
act has
> a Primary Domain Controller ?
>
> Best regards and thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>
>

Many thanks gaiseric

This help me..



Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 ? 16:34 -0400, Gaiseric Vandal a ?crit
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> gaiseric.vandal