Install winbind on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install winbind
Learn how to install winbind with the command sudo apt-get install winbind on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of winbind:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: winbind
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install winbind
Package Details | |
| Package: | winbind |
| Version: | 2:3.6.25-0ubuntu0.12.04.4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.samba.org |
| Description: | Samba nameservice integration server Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as an NT4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both NT4 domains and Active Directory realms as a member server. . This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows domain on a Linux system. User/group lookups are configured via /etc/nsswitch.conf, and authentication is integrated using the winbind module for PAM. Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://www.samba.org |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | net |
How to install winbind on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If winbind is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L winbind' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L winbind Package `winbind' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing winbind:
After system update use the following command to install winbind:
sudo apt-get install winbind
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove winbind from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the winbind from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the winbind following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove winbind
Following command is used to remove the winbind package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove winbind
This will remove winbind and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing winbind with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge winbind
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove winbind
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with winbind package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.