18 Feb
2009
18 Feb
'09
1:50 a.m.
If you have a lot of hosts that need access to winbind mapped UIDs/GIDs instead of setting up winbind everywhere and having a administrative headache if the RID mapping gets messed up on one host, setup a winbind to NIS server that puts the mappings into NIS maps and propagate the information that way. Only real difference on the other hosts is to switch 'winbind' to 'nis' in nsswitch.conf.
What's wrong with winbind on a ldap backend? I have winbind installed everywhere...all pointing to a single ldap instance.