[COLUG] Re: Lan hostname to IP resolution: does winbind require (Windows NT) servers?

[Rob Funk]

jep200404 wrote:
> Rob Funk wrote:
> > Package: winbind
> >
> >  service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT
> > servers
>
> Do mere peers suffice for the Windows NT servers?

Remember that Win2K and WinXP (and presumably Vista) are all NT machines 
underneath, and if they have file/printer sharing turned on then they're 
a server.  (Also any samba servers count.)

As far as I can tell the user/group information is only available from a 
server configured for it (though I don't use Windows network user 
authentication and therefore don't pay attention to that aspect), but the 
machine name information is provided by any machine with file/printer 
sharing turned on, to anyone broadcasting the question.

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