What's the consensus? Should winbind even be considered for production use? Looking back through the archives of the Samba lists, there's a lot of doubt about it. Where people have had problems, there are more often than not no solutions given. When I look at the man page in 3.0.28, there are litterally blank spots awaiting completion, and lack of documentation of sometimes-essential switches explicitly and obscurely referred to in the email lists. The "official" manual sections that cover it are tangential and incomplete. The third-party howtos, when they go farther than the man page, are sketchy and often just wrong.
Should it have even been released in anything other than a beta package? I was assuming that anything in the official Samba releases was reasonably solid - like the core Samba functionality, or the excellent rsync, or the components of other major OSS packages of similar stature to Samba. I've seen a claim that Samba 4 may handle this stuff much better. But if there are any more releases in the 3 line, should there be prominent warnings that, due to either flawed design or bad documentation, winbind should not be counted on for production? In 14 years of administering Linux systems, I've never seen anything that, given a few days to troubleshoot and some advice from the lists, I couldn't get humming sweetly. Not winbind. Either I'm getting too old for this work, or it uniquely fails the usability test. Best regards, Whit -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
