[Samba] Why would nsswitch.conf be needed at all ?

Frederic Olivie alf at club.fr
Thu Jan 20 18:07:53 GMT 2005


I understand the spirit, but, as far as my application is concerned (print server only for windows boxes), don't I have a way of not having to include winbind in nsswitch ?

> And unless you are running on an appliance type box,
> most people would prefer to see user and group names
> when they run 'ls -l' so you end up needing NSS anyways.
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> cheers, jerry
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