Justin B Rye wrote: > There are so many ways of writing this, from "via the NBNS/WINS > protocol" to "via the WINS (NBNS) service", and any one of them would > be fine by me. I'd leave it up to the people who are familiar with > the technical side.
I assume that in practice, the main problem is that anyone searching with "apt-cache search NetBIOS" is not going to find the package. Also the description does not mention what pam_winbind and nss_winbind from the libpam-winbind package are plugins for (hint: it's not samba, and in the latter case it's not PAM). See also bug#626736. How about something like this, to start: Before: Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol [...] . This package provides pam_winbind and nss_winbind, plugins that integrate with a local winbindd server to provide Windows domain authentication and user/group name lookups to the system; and nss_wins, which provides hostname lookups via the WINS and NBNS protocols. After: [...] . This package provides pam_winbind and nss_winbind, which allow a local winbindd server to provide Windows domain authentication and user and group name lookups for the system; and nss_wins, which allows local users to transparently use a NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) server such as WINS to resolve hostnames. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
