I have a client who uses a Win2003 server internally for their domain logons, and for running programs that can't run on linux, or they'd be a 100% e-smith site at this moment. The problem is, and it wasn't a huge problem with earlier versions of the server 5.0 (which they used for a good long while), are their usernames.
They use a first initial.lastname format. You can't create users like that in the server manager.
I need the usernames (mainly for smaba, to map some shared drives on the e-smith) to be the same for ease of use, and to allow their logon scripts to execute without intervention. It would also be nice if they could access their mail and browse the web (squid auth) with the same user/pass.
It seems the best way to do that would be winbind, which should allow me to do all the authorization on the 2k3 server, leaving me one place to change all the passwords...
Has anyone successfully implemented winbind?
It seems to have all the pieces :
/usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so
/usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so.2
Any advice, warnings, etc would be appreciated..
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