WinBind in a new version of Samba

[Janina Sajka]

The doc for winbind is included in the samba doc directory under /usr/doc. 
It's a daemon you must launch independently of samba. It's called winbindd 
-- with two d's in the name.

Read the doc carefully. You will have to be root on the linux machine and 
admin on the Win machine to make winbind work properly.

Having said this, let me ask you to consider whether you actually need 
winbind. It's purpolse is to provide user authentication from the Win 
authenticator, while offering user services on the samba/linux side. Is 
that what you need to do?

I ask, because this confused me a few weeks ago while I was building my 
connectivity to AFB's new NT server. It turns out I don't need winbind or 
samba. I just need smbclient and smbmount--not the same as samba or 
winbind.

 On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Hello, listers!
> I downloaded that newest version of Samba, particularly because of its new
> interesting features, a WinBind daemon. However, I cannot locate the daemon
> program after installation and therefore I have no idea on how to proceed
> with WinBind. Can anybody help?
> Vic
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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