nss_wins (was [Samba] winbind)

[Buchan Milne]

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> Message: 19
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:19:15 -0800
> From: Joseph Loo <jloo at acm.org>
> To: samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: [Samba] winbind
>
> I have been looking a t winbind recently. Is it possible to configure
> winbind and not join the microsoft network and use nss_wins to retrieve
> the window host address?
>
> So far the It organization has not responded to a request to allow the
> machine to join the microsoft network. I need to get the window machines
> host ip address for the Linux system.
>

AFAIK, nss_wins is useable without any other parts of samba. All you
need is an smb.conf file listing your wins server.

In fact, in Mandrake (since 8.1 or 8.2 I think) nss_wins has been a
seperate package, relying only on samba-common (which provides the
smb.conf).

Regards,
Buchan

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