On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 10:27 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 09:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Logwatch, in the Samba section, lists the following: > > > > nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(986) Could not init idmap -- netlogon proxy only > > : 2 Time(s) > > nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:child_read_request(49) Got invalid request > > length: 0 : 3 Time(s) > > > > I could do with some pointers on this, as googling only turned up one > > reference, which referred to ldap, and I don't use that. > > > > I'm not sure what nsswitch or winbindd do, and maybe I have them running > > but don't need them. > > AIUI, winbind is only needed if you are authenticating users against NTLM (i.e. NT domain) or Active Directory. If you are running winbind, it will try to contact a Primary Domain Controller, and I think it will time out if it finds none. I've only used winbind once, and that was to get a Fedora file server to join a NT4 domain more than a year ago. nsswitch is your "name server switch", which tells your computer what mechanism to use to resolve hostnames (i.e. DNS, /etc/hosts, etc.). So, you probably want to disable winbindd if you're not running on an Active Directory/NT domain. Not sure about nsswitch though. I didn't know that this was a daemon at all, just assumed that it is a file /etc/nsswitch.conf'. HTH -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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