Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:26:27 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names? Message-ID: <20021124162626.GB22014@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <003201c293c1$cde65230$0200a8c0@capm> References: <002101c29353$20495280$0200a8c0@capm> <20021124123214.GC19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <003201c293c1$cde65230$0200a8c0@capm>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 03:00:09PM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
> > In FreeBSD 5.x there will be support for Name Service Switch
> > functionality, which will make it possible for someone to write an
> > add-on to allow name resolution via NetBIOS. However, that doesn't
> > help here and now.
>
> Please tell me more, i use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Has this made the way into
> the handbook yet?
See the nsswitch.conf(5) man page for how to configure NSS. In theory
the software you want is already written as part of the Samba project
--- see:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/wbinfo.1.html
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html
however at the moment it seems that the net/samba port doesn't install
either of those executables, or any sort of libnss_* modules (I
suspect that naming convention may be a Linux-ism: no idea what the
equivalent under FreeBSD is, if it's different). So I guess there's a
job of porting to do there.
There was a thread on this subject in freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org back
in July, starting with this message:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=187816+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020728.freebsd-hackers
Cheers,
Matthew
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