Am Die, 2002-09-17 um 22.08 schrieb Mike McCormack: > > service functionality; I doubt that's a good approach. Wine could > > perhaps offer services on an IP alias instead, somewhat similar as > > described in http://www.deschner.de/gd/dual_samba.html > > Well, that's exactly what I want to avoid. NetBIOS multiplexes many > NetBIOS "ports" through a single TCP/IP port. It can also use SPX/IPX > as it's underlying protocol.
What's wrong with an IP alias? If NetBIOS multiplexing requires hacking Samba, getting there will require substantial support from the Samba community at take an indeterminate amount of time. Setting up IP aliasing, on the other hand, is a simple administration task that requires no support by third parties. Thus server functionality will be much easier to achieve this way then the other (even if the Samba guys cooperate, it will take years until a majority of the Samba/wine installations has the modified Samba). >> When it comes to User authentication, I am strongly for wine >> communicating with the Unix system (e.g. PAM). Then if PAM supports >> NT domain authentication (through samba or whatever), Activedirectory >> AKA LDAP authentication, etc., wine would, too. >> We'd just have to ensure that we don't loose too much on our way >> through the Unix layer. >Yes, integration is what makes Wine good, so I agree with you here. I just played around with winbind a bit, and I'd say it's exactly what we're looking for. Change a few lines in nsswitch.conf, add pam_winbind.so to your PAM configuration, and you're all set. Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
