tags 437534 wontfix thanks > > I'd like winbind to automatically add the wins hostname resolving method > > to /etc/nsswitch.conf, so I can resolve windows machine names with > > resolveip by default. There is code in the libnss-mdns postinst that > > could be adapted to winbind. > > WINS hostname resolution should not be enabled by default in the package; > this is optional functionality which is not appropriate for the majority of > environments. Therefore I don't believe there's any reason to add > particular support for this in the maintainer scripts.
As a samba systems admin, I also never found the need to use this in nsswitch.conf so I agree with Steve that we really shouldn't do something in the maintainer's scripts. Other team members, please speak if you disagree..:-)
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