This might be a stupid question, but I ask only because I can't think of a good reason...
Why do so many vendors' builds of Samba not include libnss_wins, the WINS/NetBIOS name resolution library? I find that it is very helpful for my Linux/Samba servers to be able to resolve hostnames by WINS. It also seems to improve domain browsing performance dramatically to have the library present and enabled in nsswitch.conf. It seems to me to be such a basic and essential part of the SMB protocol, yet many distributions omit it. It's very annoying. I guess the solution is to always build Samba using the latest stable sources from samba.org. Perhaps someone thinks it's a security vulnerability and therefore shouldn't be included by default, but would a system be any less secure if the library was included but not disabled by default? Besides, in my experience, even when the WINS libraries are included, nsswitch.conf must be edited to enable it -- I don't see the mere presence of libnss_wins.so on a system making it any less vulnerable, just as having a key on the inside of a locked door doesn't make the house any less secure. Any good reasons why it wouldn't be included? -- --Jon Johnson Sutinen Consulting, Inc. www.sutinen.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
