[Likewise-open-discuss] Authentication issues

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:04:34PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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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.

You're right. libwbclient has been introduced in Samba 3.2. Samba 3.0
smbd still uses internal routines to talk to winbind.


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member   http://www.samba.org
Likewise Software   http://www.likewisesoftware.com

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