[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#429429: samba: nmbd not always necessary

[Robert Edmonds]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> As a team, we support the use of Samba as an NFS replacement.  This is
> an explicit design goal of the CIFS unix extensions. 

So, in a unix-only environment, is it a perfectly acceptable use case to
run without nmbd if browsing is not required and name resolution is
provided through other means?  What has the potential to break if nmbd
is not running?

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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