<sect2>
<title>Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls</title>
- <para>Over the last two years, efforts have been underway
+ <para>Over the last few years, efforts have been underway
by various Samba Team members to decode various aspects of
the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (MSRPC) system. This
system is used for most network related operations between
NT account information onto UNIX user and group names.</para>
</sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Microsoft Active Directory Services</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Since late 2001, Samba has gained the ability to
+ interact with Microsoft Windows 2000 using its 'Native
+ Mode' protocols, rather than the NT4 RPC services.
+ Using LDAP and Kerberos, a domain member running
+ winbind can enumerate users and groups in exactly the
+ same way as a Win2k client would, and in so doing
+ provide a much more efficient and
+ effective winbind implementation.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2>
<title>Name Service Switch</title>
<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>autoconf</command>
<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>make clean</command>
<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>rm config.cache</command>
-<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>./configure --with-winbind</command>
+<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>./configure</command>
<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>make</command>
<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>make install</command>
</programlisting></para>
<para>
-<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>/usr/local/samba/bin/net rpc join -S PDC -U Administrator</command>
+<prompt>root#</prompt> <command>/usr/local/samba/bin/net join -S PDC -U Administrator</command>
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Winbind is currently only available for
- the Linux operating system, although ports to other operating
+ the Linux, Solaris and IRIX operating systems, although ports to other operating
systems are certainly possible. For such ports to be feasible,
we require the C library of the target operating system to
support the Name Service Switch and Pluggable Authentication
<listitem><para>Currently the winbind PAM module does not take
into account possible workstation and logon time restrictions
- that may be been set for Windows NT users.</para></listitem>
+ that may be been set for Windows NT users, this is
+ instead up to the PDC to enforce.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>