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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 new package called "Winbind" has been developed that
allows a Linux machine to become a full member of a NT domain. The
normal username, group and password databases on Linux are augmented
by information direct from a NT domain controller. This provides a
level of domain integration previously unavailable on Unix systems.
A white paper on Winbind is available on the Samba web site.
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