On Sunday 03 August 2008, Jason A. Nunnelley wrote: > Recap: Jeff and I are having a conversation about whether "turning > off winbinds" is a solution for rectifying apparent conflicts with a > PDC running winbinds.
Here's my take on the subject: The general use for winbind is to be able to use an MS domain controller for authentication eliminating the need to separately create matching 'nix users. The special case for using winbind is when, using Samba as the PDC, you wish to insist that a username/password pair from a system not a domain member is not authenticated even if the username/password pair matches that of a domain user (maybe more correctly to state that the domain part is missing from the supplied credentials). Note that generally with a pure Windows network and a Windows NT4 PDC, as well as Windows in general (peer to peer), matching username/password credentials are enough to authenticate, so using winbind in this situation creates an environment more restrictive then generally expected. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
