John,
It would help the list to understand WHY you believe that winbind is
NOT
needed by the PDC/BDC, and WHY it is needed on member servers.
Winbind, as the name suggests, does authentication for the unix
server. Of course the manual has a very good write up of it:
"Winbind unifies UNIX and Windows NT account management by allowing a
UNIX box to become a full member of an NT domain. Once this is done,
the UNIX box will see NT users and groups as if they were
“native” UNIX users and groups, allowing the NT domain to be used
in much the same manner that NIS+ is used within UNIX-only
environments...
Additionally, Winbind provides an authentication service that hooks
into the PAM system to provide authentication via an NT domain to any
PAM-enabled applications. This capability solves the problem of
synchronizing passwords between systems, since all passwords are
stored in a single location (on the domain controller)."
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/winbind.html
While subscribers keep explaining what they believe, and keep giving
advice based on their belief system, rather than on well reasoned
fact,
confusion will continue to exist and complaints regarding Samba
documentation will continue also.
Are you willing to take a brave step to explain your reasoning?
Cheers,
John T.
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