Samba is an implementation of the smb/cifs protocol for unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with microsoft windows, os x, and other unix systems. samba can also function as an nt4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both nt4 domains and active directory realms as a member server.

this package provides nss_winbind, a plugin that integrates with a local winbindd server to provide user/group name lookups to the system; and nss_wins, which provides hostname lookups via both the nbns and netbios broadcast protocols.