wbinfo command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

wbinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wbinfo: command not found

Solutions to wbinfo: command not found

How To Fix wbinfo: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wbinfo is provided by winbind package.

winbind is:

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.

This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows domain on a Linux system.

Winbind based user/group lookups via /etc/nsswitch.conf can be enabled via the libnss-winbind package. Winbind based Windows domain authentication can be enabled via the libpam-winbind package.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install winbind

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install winbind.

sudo apt -y install winbind

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install winbind

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wbinfo command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.