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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:51:25 -0600
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        "Martin Blapp" <mb@imp.ch>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: winbindd support for samba
Message-ID:  <001501c15fe1$8ba4d3c0$fe0c4042@inethouston.net>
References:  <20011026113649.V23866-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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>  winbindd  is a daemon that provides a service for the Name
>  Service Switch capability that is present in most modern C
>  libraries.  The Name Service Switch allows user and system
>  information to be obtained from different  databases  ser-
>  vices  such as NIS or DNS. The exact behaviour can be con-
>  figured throught the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.   Users  and
>  groups  are  allocated  as they are resolved to a range of
>  user and group ids specified by the administrator  of  the
>  Samba system.
>
> Btw, since we don't support winbindd, the samba-devel port
> should not install the manpage :-/
>
What do you mean we don't support it, its in samba-2.2.2, or alteast it
should be, it was in the anouncement, maybe I'm just not installing it.



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