Hello,
There has been a discussion on wine-devel about using winbind for purposes like user authorization, retrieving user and group information, and more.
It seemed reasonable to use PAM and NSS for the basic lookups and leave it to the sysadmin to configure these services to use winbind.
Winbind offers some more functionality than that, though, such as SID lookups.
Continuing along that line, it would be desirable to have a more generic interface than what winbindd currently offers - actually it would be nice to be able to access all RPC calls that samba supports through an interface like winbindd's.
* Are there any plans by the Samba team to extend winbindd in this direction?
* If no, would the Samba team accept patches from wine developers implementing such extensions to winbindd?
* Does winbind support client requests (from the Unix side) where strings are in Unicode format, i.e. could wine pass Unicode strings from Windows applications to windbind directly?
* If no, would it be possible to extend winbindd to support this without modifying the samba libraries?
Martin