Quoting Osamu Aoki (os...@debian.org): > Package: winbind > Version: 2:3.5.11~dfsg-4 > Severity: wishlist > > As I understand, winbind is a package to help integrate a machine into a > Windows network. Documentation in "Integrating MS Windows Networks with Samba" > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/integrate-ms-networks.html > is a good resource for novice like me. It seems we need to add wins to > nsswitch.conf.
Thanks for you suggestion and bug report, Aoki-san. However, I think it really should be up to the local admin to decide what to do, here. I never added wins to nsswitch.conf on any of my samba servers and they're still working fairly well. At the very minimum, this should be done through a (low priority) debconf question (defaulting to not do anything). Given that, I'm far from being convinced of this being really useful, I will eventually consider this.....if we get a working patch implementing this, including debconf question..:)
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