On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk
wrote:
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.
Well yeah you can use ldap too to keep the rid mappings centralized. I just think configuring ldap, putting schema together and configuring samba everywhere is more work then nis, but to each their own.
-Ross