On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:44, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > 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'. > Thanks for the reply. I'm very confused about this. I see those messages on both boxes that report. On one winbind was running at level 5 - I've switched it off and disabled it in chkconfig - but on the other it was not running at any level. I looked at the /etc/nsswitch.conf, but again I didn't really know what it was looking for, so I don't know whether it is set up right or not. I'll post it here if it helps. Anne
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