On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day... > > I use my Samba box as a PDC, however I don't use winbind. > > I don't really have an understanding of it. What is winbind used for, and > under what conditions would it be used? > > Any help, references, pointers appreciated. >
The GDP [1] responded to "what is winbind" with this (amongst other) page. http://www.advogato.org/proj/winbind/ Project info for winbind Page created 3 Apr 2000 by lkcl (Master) Homepage: http://samba.org Winbind is an nss switch module to map Windows NT Domain databases to Unix. In combination with Samba and pam_ntdom, a Unix box will be able to integrate straight into a full Windows NT Domain environment, without needing a Unix Account database. Google is your friend Greeno [1] Google Documentation Project -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
