Hi,
Is someone working on winbindd support for Free/NetBSD ?
#man winbindd
NAME
winbindd - Name Service Switch daemon for resolving names
from NT servers
winbindd is a daemon that provides a service for the Name
Service Switch capability that is present in most modern C
libraries. The Name Service Switch allows user and system
information to be obtained from different databases ser-
vices such as NIS or DNS. The exact behaviour can be con-
figured throught the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Users and
groups are allocated as they are resolved to a range of
user and group ids specified by the administrator of the
Samba system.
Btw, since we don't support winbindd, the samba-devel port
should not install the manpage :-/
A winbind deamon is really needed if you have a big environment
and you don't want to add all the time MACHINE$ entrys to
/etc/passwd, on which samba depends if you have samba acting
as a PDC.
Winbindd(8) depends on nsswitch support. We have some
nsswitch support, but NOT the sun API we could use to
complile free available programms like samba.
Linux has a SUN compatible NSS implementation.
So either we fix or NSS implementation, or we modify
with patches the winbindd to support FreeBSD too.
Suggestions ?
PS:
IMHO this is a real issue and we should look how we
can soon have a working winbindd on BSD.
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