[Likewise-open-discuss] Authentication issues

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:12:44PM -0400, George Clark wrote:
>> Thanks, it sounds like I'm close.  Yes, winbindd is started and running
>> in runlevel 3 and 5.  I didn't know I need to install anything for
>> nsswitch, though.  My CentOS distro ought to already have the module,
>> but I'll check.  Does nsswitch run as a daemon?
> 
> No, it is part of operating system. If you have installed everything from
> packaged release you probably have all files you need. What you need to 
> make sure is whether you have necessary libnss*.so files installed in /lib
> directory. In case of winbind (samba) it is libnss_winbind.so, in case 
> of LWO it is libnss_lwidentity.so (and the respective symlink) file.
> There are also configuration entries that need to be made in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf file.
> At this point you should decide whether you want to use LWO or Windbind
> being part of Samba. It's pointless to try use both of them to provide 
> similar services. 

Except when laying Samba ontop of Likewise Open.

Tony, do you have a like to the "Integrating Samba with Likewise"
whitepaper somewhere?






cheers, jerry
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