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Microsoft renamed the SMB protocol to CIFS during + the Internet hype in the 1990s. At about the time that the SMB protocol was renamed + to CIFS, an additional dialect of the SMB protocol was in development. The need for the + deployment of the NetBIOS layer was also removed, thus paving the way for use of the SMB + protocol natively over TCP/IP (known as NetBIOS-less SMB or <quote>naked</quote> TCP + transport). + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Common UNIX Printing System</glossterm> + <acronym>CUPS</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + A recent implementation of a high-capability printing system for UNIX developed by + <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/">Easy Software Inc.</ulink> The design objective + of CUPS was to provide a rich print processing system that has built-in intelligence + that is capable of correctly rendering (processing) a file that is submitted for + printing even if it was formatted for an entirely different printer. + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Domain Master Browser</glossterm> + <acronym>DMB</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The Domain Master Browser maintains a list of all the servers that + have announced their services within a given workgroup or NT domain. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Domain Name Service</glossterm> + <acronym>DNS</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + A protocol by which computer hostnames may be resolved to the matching IP address/es. + DNS is implemented by the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. There exists a recent version + of DNS that allows dynamic name registration by network clients or by a DHCP server. + This recent protocol is known as Dynamic DNS (DDNS). + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</glossterm> + <acronym>DHCP</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + A protocol that was based on the BOOTP protocol that may be used to dynamically assign + an IP address, from a reserved pool of addresses, to a network client or device. + Additionally, DHCP may assign all network configuration settings and may be used to + register a computer name and its address with a Dynamic DNS server. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Ethereal</glossterm> + <acronym>ethereal</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + A network analyzer, also known as: a network sniffer or a protocol analyzer. Ethereal is + freely available for UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows systems from + <ulink url="http://www.ethereal.com">the Ethereal Web site.</ulink> + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Group IDentifier</glossterm> + <acronym>GID</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The UNIX system Group Identifier; on older systems, a 32-bit unsigned integer, and on + newer systems, an unsigned 64-bit integer. The GID is used in UNIX-like operating systems + for all group level access control. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Key Distribution Center</glossterm> + <acronym>KDC</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The Kerberos authentication protocol makes use of security keys (also called a ticket) + by which access to network resources is controlled. The issuing of Kerberos tickets + is effected by a KDC. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Light Weight Directory Access Protocol</glossterm> + <acronym>LDAP</acronym> + <glossdef> + <para> + The Light Weight Directory Access Protocol is a technology that + originated from the development of X.500 protocol specifications and + implementations. LDAP was designed as a means of rapidly searching + through X.500 information. Later LDAP was adapted as an engine that + could drive its own directory database. LDAP is not a database per + se; rather it is a technology that enables high volume search and + locate activity from clients that wish to obtain simply defined + information about a sub-set of records that are stored in a + database. LDAP does not have a particularly efficient mechanism for + storing records in the database, and it has no concept of transaction + processing nor of mechanisms for preserving data consistency. LDAP is + premised around the notion that the search and read activity far + outweigh any need to add, delete, or modify records. LDAP does + provide a means for replication of the database so as to keep slave + servers up to date with a master. It also has built-in capability to + handle external references and deferral. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Local Master Browser</glossterm> + <acronym>LMB</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The Local Master Browser maintains a list of all servers that have announced themselves + within a given workgroup or NT domain on a particular broadcast isolated subnet. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Media Access Control</glossterm> + <acronym>MAC</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The hard-coded address of the physical layer device that is attached to the network. + All network interface controllers must have a hard-coded and unique MAC address. The + MAC address is 48 bits long. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>NetBIOS Extended User Interface</glossterm> + <acronym>NetBEUI</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + Very simple network protocol invented by IBM and Microsoft. It is used to do NetBIOS + over ethernet with low overhead. NetBEUI is a non-routable protocol. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Network Address Translation</glossterm> + <acronym>NAT</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + Network address translation is a form of IP address masquerading. It ensures that internal + private (RFC1918) network addresses from packets inside the network are rewritten so + that TCP/IP packets that leave the server over a public connection are seen to come only + from the external network address. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Network Basic Input/Output System</glossterm> + <acronym>NetBIOS</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + NetBIOS is a simple application programming interface (API) invented in the 1980s + that allows programs to send data to certain network names. NetBIOS is always run over + another network protocol such as IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, or Logical Link Control (LLC). + NetBIOS run over LLC is best known as NetBEUI (The NetBIOS Extended User Interface + &smbmdash; a complete misnomer!). + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>NetBT</glossterm> + <acronym>NBT</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + Protocol for transporting NetBIOS frames over TCP/IP. Uses ports 137, 138, and 139. + NetBT is a fully routable protocol. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>NT/LanManager Security Support Provider</glossterm> + <acronym>NTLMSSP</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The NTLM Security Support Provider (NTLMSSP) service in Windows NT4/200x/XP is responsible for + handling all NTLM authentication requests. It is the front end for protocols such as SPNEGO, + Schannel, and other technologies. The generic protocol family supported by NTLMSSP is known as + GSSAPI, the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface specified in RFC2078. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Server Message Block</glossterm> + <acronym>SMB</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + SMB was the original name of the protocol spoken by Samba. It was invented in the 1980s + by IBM and adopted and extended further by Microsoft. Microsoft renamed the protocol to + CIFS during the Internet hype in the 1990s. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation</glossterm> + <acronym>SPNEGO</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The purpose of SPNEGO is to allow a client and server to negotiate a security mechanism for + authentication. The protocol is specified in RFC2478 and uses tokens as built via ASN.1 DER. + DER refers to Distinguished Encoding Rules. These are a set of common rules for creating + binary encodings in a platform-independent manner. Samba has support for SPNEGO. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</glossterm> + <acronym>TOSHARG</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + This book makes repeated reference to <quote>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</quote> + by John H. Terpstra (Author) and Jelmer R. Vernooij (Author). This publication is available from + Amazon.com. Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (October 2003), + ISBN: 0131453556. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>User IDentifier</glossterm> + <acronym>UID</acronym> + <glossdef><para> + The UNIX system User Identifier; on older systems, a 32-bit unsigned integer, and on newer systems, + an unsigned 64-bit integer. The UID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all user level access + control. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry> + <glossterm>Universal Naming Convention</glossterm> + <acronym>UNC</acronym> + <glossdef><para>A syntax for specifying the location of network resources (such as file shares). + The UNC syntax was developed in the early days of MS DOS 3.x and is used internally by the SMB protocol. + </para></glossdef> + </glossentry> + +</glossary> |