From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 18 17:17:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6005137BC4A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA22902; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:17:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma022893; Wed, 19 Jul 00 10:17:19 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id 4A256921.0001AE4F ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:18:21 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au To: Nick Slager Cc: isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4A256921.0001AE23.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:17:14 +1000 Subject: Re: NS Swtich functionality Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To: Nick Slager cc: isp@freebsd.org Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your answer and say that I think the nsswitch referred to by Mr Donovan provides considerably more functions than /etc/host.conf. nsswitch allows among other things . transparent resolution of MS Windows NetBIOS names . allows all the users in an NT domain SAM to appear in your password file. Access can be managed by using what is permitted by the domain. Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message