WinBind in a new version of Samba

WinBind in a new version of Samba

[Victor Tsaran]

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

Re: 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@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: WinBind in a new version of Samba

[Charles Crawford]

What other features does the new version have?  Does it work?

-- charlie Crawford.
At 01:10 PM 3/11/02 +0100, you 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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Re: WinBind in a new version of Samba

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Janina!
that was my mistake: I missed the second d in "winbindd". I read the paper
on WinBind, but not the actual doc.
Yes, I definitely understand what I am doing. I am setting up a Linux server
for the WinXp-based network. It used to be a hastle to create an account for
every XP user on a Linux machine. Now with WinBind, it became much easier.
Thanks for the advice.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: WinBind in a new version of Samba


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
>
>
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