> I have setup a samba server as a domain member to share print queues. > As I'm doing print quotas, I need the users to be authenticated properly. > The setup works except that it appears that I need to add winbind to my > nsswitch.conf. > This is kind of upsetting as I don't see a reason why I have to share windows > users' namespace with my linux users base (mainly root and system users btw). > As far as samba is concerned, it creates uid/gid mappings on the fly. Why > would it absolutely need the system to be able to resolve username/uids ?
windbind does this exactly in order to be able to provide such information via NSS. Samba is a UNIX process, it needs to know about the users. > Maybe I missed something ? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba