Hello, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:11 PM, John Drescher<dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a Samba PDC with an LDAP backend password database, against which >> WinXP clients authenticate. I also have a Ubuntu workstation, which >> authenticates directly to the same LDAP password database (no Samba). >> >> I now wish to have the WinXP clients be able to map shares on the Ubuntu >> workstation, so I obviously need to get Samba working on it. I can slog >> through the technical details, but I want to make sure I have the concept >> properly figured out - will the Ubuntu workstation be a "member server", >> configured as such per the Samba documentation using Winbind, or is there a >> different way I should be thinking about this? >> >> Thanks for any general pointers. >> > > That is what I have with my samba setup. I mean I have a PDC, a BDC, 3 > to 5 LDAP servers and 5 or so member servers. On my PDC and BDC there > are no real file shares. The member servers have that. My member > servers have winbind.
At work, we're in the process of starting a migration of our Windows XP clients to Ubuntu. My PDC is a Samba server running on Ubuntu Hardy with LDAP backend. I'm testing with my workstation (Ubuntu Jaunty). Samba uses the PDC as a password server. Users and groups are read from LDAP via nsswitch (i.e. nothing about LDAP in smb.conf on the client). Also, no winbind. It seems to work, but I want to know if I'm missing something. Why should I run winbind? If I need to run winbind, does it need to run on server _and_ clients? Many thanks in advance, Norberto -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
