[Likewise-open-discuss] Authentication issues

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>> Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Yes, what I meant was using LWO and winbind daemons at 
> the same time.

And my point is that in Samba 3.0 you *have* to run
likewise-winbindd and winbindd and the same time since there
is a tightc static  coupling between smbd and winbindd.

I'll post the PDF of the whitepaper soon.





cheers, jerry
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