Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:47:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: <dwcjr@freebsd.org> Subject: winbindd support for samba Message-ID: <20011026113649.V23866-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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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. Martin Blapp, mb@imp.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------ Improware AG, UNIX solution and service provider Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland Phone: +41 061 826 93 00: +41 61 826 93 01 PGP Fingerprint: 57E 7CCD 2769 E7AC C5FA DF2C 19C6 DCD1 1B3A EC9C ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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