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Using Samba, Second Edition
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Using Samba, Second Edition

by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

wbinfo

Synopsis

This program retrieves and prints information from the winbindd daemon, which must be running for wbinfo to function.

Command synopsis

wbinfo [options]

Options

-u

Prints all usernames that have been mapped from the Windows NT domain to Unix users. Users in all trusted domains are also listed.

- g

Prints all group names that have been mapped from the Windows NT domain to Unix groups. Groups in all trusted domains are also reported.

-h NetBIOS_name

Queries the WINS server and prints the IP address of the specified system.

-n name

Prints the SID corresponding to the name specified. The argument can be specified as DOMAIN/name (or by using a character other than the slash, as defined by the winbind separator character) to specify both the domain and the name. If the domain and separator are omitted, the value of the workgroup parameter in the Samba configuration file is used as the name of the domain.

-s SID

Prints the name mapped to a SID, which is specified in the format S-1- N-N-D-D-D-R.

-U UID

Prints the SID mapped to a Unix UID, if one exists in the current domain.

-G gid

Prints the SID mapped to a Unix group ID, if one exists in the current domain.

-S SID

Prints the Unix UID that winbind has mapped to the specified SID, if one exists.

-Y SID

Prints the Unix group ID that winbind has mapped to the specified SID, if one exists.

-t

Tests to see that the workstation trust account for the Samba server is valid.

-m

Prints a list of Windows NT domains trusted by the Windows ...

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