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NSS support

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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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