Where is nss_files.so.1?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue May 4 11:56:59 PDT 2004


In the last episode (May 04), Kevin A. Pieckiel said:
> I'm trying to configure Samba 3.0.3 and I keep getting an error in my
> logs:
> 
> Shared object "nss_files.so.1" not found
> 
> I only get this when I try to set up the recycle vfs object.  The
> file is definitely not present on my system.  I did a search through
> the ports tree, and only came up with the file appearing in
> chinese/cle_base and emulators/linux_base-debian.  Where the heck to
> I get a hold of this file?  I would have thought this would have been
> included with the inclusion of the nsswitch subsystem in FBSD 5.  I'm
> currently using FBSD 5.2.1, cvs'ed and compiled today (4 May 2004).

As far as I know, there is no nss_files.so on FreeBSD.  The 'files',
'dns', 'compat', and 'nis' sources are built into libc.  Samba
shouldn't be looking for it.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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