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Winbind

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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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