Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I assume that in practice, the main problem is that anyone searching
with "apt-cache search NetBIOS" is not going to find the package.
On second thought: looking over the current description of the winbind
package, I am already happy with it. I guess libpam-winbind should
just say
.
This package provides PAM modules and NSS plugins to integrate
winbind into the system's authentication and user/group/hostname
lookup mechanisms.
and leave the talk of NetBIOS and detailed use cases to the "winbind"
package description. For reference, here's that description, in case
someone has ideas for improvements.
Description: Samba nameservice integration server
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol [...]
.
This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication
and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows
domain on a Linux system. User/group lookups are configured via
/etc/nsswitch.conf, and authentication is integrated using the winbind
module for PAM.