[K12OSN] Re: Winbind won't start

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon May 24 17:57:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 11:47, David Trask wrote:

> Actually after a little exploring...why are you trying to run Winbind? 
> Are you trying to integrate a Win2K server?  I'm not using winbind at all
> and I have an XP network.

Winbind is supposed to auto-create Linux/samba users as they log in
if they exist in the Windows domain.  If you don't mind creating the
users yourself you can still use smb authentication so you only have
to maintain passwords on the domain controller.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com






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