Re: samba-ad-dc: are pam/nss-winbind, and winbind itself, needed for AD-DC functionality?

On 08.03.2026 14:08, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:

> This is my understanding of the relationship between winbindd and
> Samba.
> 
> The winbindd daemon is required by Samba to be able to 'talk' to AD,
> whether this is a DC or Unix domain member.

Yup, - after removing winbind from server services, s3fs (sysvol etc)
does not work anymore, and in strace it's visible than smbd is trying
to access /run/samba/winbindd and fails.

So yes, only nss and pam stuff isn't needed.

Thanks,

/mjt

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