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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:23:01 -0500
From:      "Brett Cates" <bcates513@hotmail.com>
To:        jerry_murdock@yahoo.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba and winbind on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <F113i4Ho8YZ4nESqN2T0000b7cc@hotmail.com>

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Thanks Jerry,  Exactly what I needed to know.

Brett


>From: Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>
>To: Brett Cates <bcates513@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Samba and winbind on FreeBSD
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brett Cates" <bcates513@hotmail.com>
>To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:43 AM
>Subject: Samba and winbind on FreeBSD
>
>
> >   I'm having a little trouble with Samba using winbind to authenticate 
>users
> > off an NT Domain.  All the instructions I have seen are Linux specific 
>and I
> > tried searching the archives and found one reference that said something
> > about NSS but that was it.  Also tried google, but didn't come up with
> > anything solid. I found the port for NSS and installed it, but still 
>can't
> > get it to work.  Has anyone got winbind up and working on FreeBSD, and 
>if so
> > can you give me some tips.  I'm stumped =P
> >
>
>The winbindd daemon works well under FreeBSD, as does pam_winbind and 
>squid's
>winbind authentication.  I'm making extensive use of it for both these
>functions.
>
>What doesn't work is libnss_winbind for auto-magic unix user/group 
>accounts.
>
>The security/nss (Network Security Services) port is not the same as the 
>Name
>Service Switch functionality that libnss_winbind  needs.  FBSD's nss 
>support is
>virtually non-existent.
>
>Jacques Vidrine has started work on nss
>(http://www.nectar.cc/zope/freebsd/nsswitch) support, but had to set it 
>aside.
>
>Jerry
>
>
>
>
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