How To Install winbind on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install winbind on Ubuntu 20.04. winbind is service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install winbind on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is winbind

winbind is:

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.

This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows domain on a Linux system.

Winbind based user/group lookups via /etc/nsswitch.conf can be enabled via the libnss-winbind package. Winbind based Windows domain authentication can be enabled via the libpam-winbind package. Task: samba-server

Package: winbind Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8 Multi-Arch: allowed Priority: optional Section: net Source: samba Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2060 Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), samba-common (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8), samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8), libbsd0 (>= 0.6.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.10), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libtalloc2 (>= 2.2.0~), libtdb1 (>= 1.4.2~), libtevent0 (>= 0.10.0~), libwbclient0 (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8), samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8) Suggests: libnss-winbind, libpam-winbind Enhances: libkrb5-26-heimdal Filename: pool/main/s/samba/winbind_4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb Size: 466364 MD5sum: 1c6fa6bb88fa3f7055205d8ec794c64e SHA1: 2a60fa79ed0427150cb5d7c02d793698f084c7d6 SHA256: 9e58007bd34f8be93c649cb5a22a96e241928aeb6ac614580dc7a22eca75f3e5 SHA512: 06d9a7bb73982927a90fdfd083748b2ff7948e3d8171a51db10cfb5982b788f29033fb6d28e1e40f9cae762797d3cd42acaf54175b87fde743cb76b9ef1ea955 Homepage: http://www.samba.org Description-en: service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.

This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows domain on a Linux system.

Winbind based user/group lookups via /etc/nsswitch.conf can be enabled via the libnss-winbind package. Winbind based Windows domain authentication can be enabled via the libpam-winbind package. Task: samba-server

Package: winbind Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: allowed Priority: optional Section: net Source: samba Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2057 Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), samba-common (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1), samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1), libbsd0 (>= 0.6.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.10), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libtalloc2 (>= 2.2.0~), libtdb1 (>= 1.4.2~), libtevent0 (>= 0.10.0~), libwbclient0 (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1), samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1) Suggests: libnss-winbind, libpam-winbind Enhances: libkrb5-26-heimdal Filename: pool/main/s/samba/winbind_4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 465808 MD5sum: 41afbdeaf4ecd7337f2deb588f48ae3d SHA1: 639298eac2b350c4a640faab0af7e80190191b46 SHA256: 74e54c210f702069d817ceee0e509b6d4501b75370582b2c717b77195cadc0bc Homepage: http://www.samba.org Description-en: service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.

This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows domain on a Linux system.

Winbind based user/group lookups via /etc/nsswitch.conf can be enabled via the libnss-winbind package. Winbind based Windows domain authentication can be enabled via the libpam-winbind package. Task: samba-server

There are three methods to install winbind on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install winbind Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install winbind using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install winbind

Install winbind Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install winbind using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install winbind

Install winbind Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install winbind using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install winbind

How To Uninstall winbind on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the winbind package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove winbind

Uninstall winbind And Its Dependencies

To uninstall winbind and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove winbind

Remove winbind Configurations and Data

To remove winbind configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge winbind

Remove winbind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove winbind configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge winbind

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install winbind package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.