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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/winbindd.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/winbindd.8.html index 938c2dcb2fc..125daccf34c 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/winbindd.8.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/winbindd.8.html @@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ CLASS="FILENAME" of user and group ids specified by the administrator of the Samba system.</P ><P ->The service provided by winbindd is called `winbind' and +>The service provided by <B +CLASS="COMMAND" +>winbindd</B +> is called `winbind' and can be used to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server. The service can also provide authentication services via an associated PAM module. </P @@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ group: files winbind ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN52" +NAME="AEN53" ></A ><H2 >OPTIONS</H2 @@ -186,7 +189,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN65" +NAME="AEN66" ></A ><H2 >NAME AND ID RESOLUTION</H2 @@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN71" +NAME="AEN72" ></A ><H2 >CONFIGURATION</H2 @@ -252,7 +255,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" DOMAIN\username. In some cases this separator character may cause problems as the '\' character has special meaning in unix shells. In that case you can use the winbind separator - option to specify an alternative sepataror character. Good + option to specify an alternative separator character. Good alternatives may be '/' (although that conflicts with the unix directory separator) or a '+ 'character. The '+' character appears to be the best choice for 100% @@ -276,7 +279,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><P >The winbind uid parameter specifies the range of user ids that are allocated by the winbindd daemon. - This range of ids should have no existing local or nis users + This range of ids should have no existing local or NIS users within it as strange conflicts can occur otherwise. </P ><P >Default: <B @@ -296,7 +299,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><P >The winbind gid parameter specifies the range of group ids that are allocated by the winbindd daemon. - This range of group ids should have no existing local or nis + This range of group ids should have no existing local or NIS groups within it as strange conflicts can occur otherwise.</P ><P >Default: <B @@ -319,7 +322,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" seconds the winbindd daemon will cache user and group information before querying a Windows NT server again. When a item in the cache is older than this time winbindd will ask the domain - controller for the sequence number of the servers account database. + controller for the sequence number of the server's account database. If the sequence number has not changed then the cached item is marked as valid for a further <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" @@ -375,7 +378,10 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><EM >Warning:</EM > Turning off user enumeration - may cause some programs to behave oddly. For example, the finger + may cause some programs to behave oddly. For example, the <B +CLASS="COMMAND" +>finger</B +> program relies on having access to the full user list when searching for matching usernames. </P ><P @@ -479,7 +485,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN152" +NAME="AEN154" ></A ><H2 >EXAMPLE SETUP</H2 @@ -577,7 +583,7 @@ CLASS="PARAMETER" >-U</I ></TT > can be any Domain - user that has administrator priviliges on the machine. Next from + user that has administrator privileges on the machine. Next from within <B CLASS="COMMAND" >samedit</B @@ -620,7 +626,10 @@ CLASS="FILENAME" >/lib/libnss_winbind.so.1</TT >.</P ><P ->Finally, setup a smb.conf containing directives like the +>Finally, setup a <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>smb.conf</TT +> containing directives like the following: </P ><P ><TABLE @@ -663,7 +672,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN194" +NAME="AEN197" ></A ><H2 >Notes</H2 @@ -723,7 +732,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN210" +NAME="AEN213" ></A ><H2 >Signals</H2 @@ -774,7 +783,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN227" +NAME="AEN230" ></A ><H2 >Files</H2 @@ -848,19 +857,19 @@ CLASS="FILENAME" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN256" +NAME="AEN259" ></A ><H2 >VERSION</H2 ><P >This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite. winbindd is however not available in - stable release of Samba as of yet.</P + the stable release of Samba as of yet.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN259" +NAME="AEN262" ></A ><H2 >SEE ALSO</H2 @@ -888,7 +897,7 @@ TARGET="_top" ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A -NAME="AEN266" +NAME="AEN269" ></A ><H2 >AUTHOR</H2 |