"thin" interface to winbind?

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:33:39PM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
>> A .a file?  Perhaps I should have said shared library rather than just
>> library.
>
> So for packaging put that one next to libsmbclient.a? SuSE priovides a separate
> package, probably debian does as well (don't know though).

Is the winbind pipe standardised to the point that other applications 
should be developed using it via a provided static library rather than 
calling samba provided binaries?

Regards
Henrik