For what it's worth, I use winbind + sssd as a windows fileserver and have
no problems with the setup. It's true that winbind is necessary to share
files but certainly SSSD can co-exist with winbind.
-Chris
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On 27/01/14 16:46, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 04:25:26PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
>> On 27/01/14 16:10, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:49:15PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, there is a bit of a debate going on over on the samba list,
>>>> about using sssd or winbind. It is now being said that sssd should
>>>> not be used on a file server because sssd cannot do what winbind can
>>>> do.
>>>>
>>>> So here are the questions:
>>>> Just what are the differences between using sssd and winbind.
>>>> Can sssd be used on a fileserver and if not, why not.
>>>>
>>> We plan to support this setup in the next SSSD release, see e.g.
>>>
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1588 . The reason is that samba
>>> itself does not only use the PAM and NSS interfaces but call winbindd
>>> directly to get additional information which is not available in the
>>> other interfaces.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> bye,
>>> Sumit
>>>
>>> Oh, and we are talking about an AD domain here.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Rowland
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>> Thanks for that, but ( there is always a but, isn't there ;-) ) any
>> idea when, I know, 'how long is a piece of string?' but ball park?
>>
> My plan is to have most of it done by the end of spring (this year,
> northern hemisphere :-).
>
Great, a very short bit of string then ;-)
Thanks
Rowland
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