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 > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs >http://www.hotjobs.com _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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