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While successful as a server Samba still lags in its ability to
seamlessly integrate a Unix machine as a client in a NT network. smbfs
provides basic client filesharing, but does not address name
resolution or authentication.
To address this a number of NSS modules are being developed that allow
a NSS aware client (such as Linux) to use a SMB server for hostname
resolution, authentication and user/group enumeration.
The hostname resolution (WINS) NSS module is complete, with the other
NSS modules in the design stage.
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