Thread: Winbinds
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:37 PM   #2 (permalink)
lensman3
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OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix


Re: Winbinds

From a text screen, type in "man winbindd". This is the title line from the man (manual) file for winbindd. This appears to be part of Samba. On my Fedora Core 8 machine this appears to have been installed by default (but I haven't turned it on, though I run a samba server).

winbindd - Name Service Switch daemon for resolving names from NT servers

At the bottom of the "man winbindds" is a SEE ALSO. Look at those other programs It looks like windbindd maps Windows security into Linux/Unix security and visa-versa. In the "/etc/init.d" directory, there is a winbind SYS5 script to start the daemon. The Core 8 scripts reads the samba config files (smb.conf).

Good luck
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