On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 22:00, Matthew J. DiBattista wrote: > Is it necessary? I am also confused as to what it does. If I disable it in > the smb.conf file, I can not say I see any difference. I am running 6 XP > pro clients, MDK 9.2 as the file server.
There are few reasons to run winbindd, of which the following is one: If you have a a real M$ DOMAIN, and this machine you are using is a home server for the clients. It will need to create the homedirs and accounts and groups for the users. And then do auth-relay to the domain. There are other reasons but that is the main one. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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