service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers

 Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
 providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X,
 and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller
 or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.
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 These packages contain snapshot versions of Samba 4, the next-generation
 version of Samba.
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 This package provides the winbindd daemon, which provides a
 service for the Name Service Switch capability that is present
 in most modern C libraries (like the GNU C Library - glibc.). Please
 note that the functionality of this version of winbind is behind on that
 of the winbind package.
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 The service provided by winbindd is called `winbind' and
 can be used to resolve user and group information from a
 Windows NT server. The service can also provide authentication
 services via an associated PAM module.