Disable winbindd?

[Eric Shubert]

Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>> I don't believe winbindd has much if anything to do with authentication.
>>
>> I'm not clear about what your situation is. Are you saying that it's
>> presently using a windoze (domain controller) server for authentication, and
>> now you want samba to handle authentication (making samba the domain
>> controller)?
> 
> Sorry about the fogginess.
> 
> Currently the Linux server uses a Windows domain controller for
> authentication.  We now want authentication to be handled by the Linux
> server using the Linux server users, groups and passwords.  We don't
> intend the Linux server to be a domain controller.  The Windows
> computer clients would still be authenticated to the network by the
> Windows domain controller server and be part of the domain.  However
> we want them to have to enter their separate Linux server ID and
> password when connection to shares on the Linux server.
> 
> Alan

What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use
Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain controller. That'd be
like trying to use 2 different domain controllers together. I don't see how
you can keep your windows DC and still have samba do authentication separate
from that (unless you do peer-to-peer type authentication, which would be
security = share). I think samba is designed to either work independently
(entirely), or work together with a domain controller. I could be wrong
though (it's been known to happen). ;)

You might want to read up on samba server types:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'