On Saturday 17 May 2008 07:44:36 am Olivier Parisy wrote: > John H Terpstra a écrit : > > I am a little lost at to what the problem is here. WINS does not require > > winbindd to be running. On the Linux system it requires: > > > > 1) In your /etc/nsswitch.conf file: > > ... > > hosts: files wins [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > ... > > > > 2) Install the samba file libnss_wins.so.2 in the /lib directory (or on > > 64-bit systems in the /lib64 directory) > > > > 3) Run nmbd > > > > > > That's it! What is so difficult? What makes this so complicated? If > > you do not need DNS, then don't even run it (or else just run a caching > > DNS server). > > > > Winbind is orthogonal to wins. They serve entirely differing purposes. > > Ah, thank you! That is exactly what I expected. I am pleased to read > that winbind and wins are different beasts, as I have no interest in the > former. > > The point is that, under Debian, the /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 file is > distributed only in the winbind package, as confirmed by this search: > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=libnss_wins&mo >de=filename&suite=stable&arch=any > > So it seems like this is a packaging issue, and not a samba one per se.
No. Not a packaging issue. winbind and wins NSS files are built out of the same code tree. It is a good idea to keep them together - just use what you need and ignore the rest. - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
