On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 12:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > WINBIND is a daemon that works in conjunction with SMB/NMB to make > use of the Windows authentication for network logins/access and the > likes - if you're not using it (which I highly doubt) then disable > it. If you're already making use of SAMBA and it's working find, it > shouldn't matter at all. Unless you're depending on the Windows > machines on your network to provide authentication, it's useless.
Thanks Stephen. Damn. Had to reboot anyway. KDE wouldn't let me in. I did wonder about getting this machine to do the Windows authentication, maybe some of the setup is wrong. winbindd doesn't appear in top anymore, I'll keep my eye out for it in another three weeks time. -- Richard Urwin
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