They are seen as different users. Thats the thing if you have all the same users in AD and /etc/passwd then you don't need winbind.
Greg On Wednesday 17 December 2003 08:51 am, David Gadoury wrote: > One thing that I am not clear on as of yet, is how winbind will handle > the fact that I have duplicate users on both my Linux machines and on my > W2K domain, user1 in AD and user1 in /etc/passwd > > -dG > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Dickie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] I'm confused. What is winbindd supposed to get me? > > > Hi, > > winbind is used to "import" accounts from a windows machine. If all > your > accounts already exist on the samba machine then you don't need winbind. > If > you had a disjoint set of users on the samba machine and the windows > machine > then you would be able to see the union set by using winbind. > > Does that help at all? > Greg > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got a Samba member server as part of a Windows NT domain. User > > accounts have the same name in both domain. I was having all sorts of > > trouble when winbindd was running with wierd groups showing up. > > > > I happened to screw up the winbindd configuration without noticing > > causing > > > it to crash, but I ran snmd and nmbd anyway and suddenly everything > > started > > > working perfectly. > > > > The docs say you MUST run winbindd. > > > > I'm confused. > > -- > Greg Dickie > just a guy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Greg Dickie just a guy Maximum Throughput -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
