On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at 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