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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="introduction.html" title="Part I. General Installation"><link rel="previous" href="introduction.html" title="Part I. General Installation"><link rel="next" href="install.html" title="Chapter 2. How to Install and Test SAMBA"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part I. General Installation</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="IntroSMB"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">David</span> <span class="surname">Lechnyr</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Unofficial HOWTO<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:david@lechnyr.com">david@lechnyr.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 14, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885255">Background</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885309">Terminology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884034">Related Projects</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884102">SMB Methodology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884189">Epilogue</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884263">Miscellaneous</a></dt></dl></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="introduction.html" title="Part I. General Installation"><link rel="previous" href="introduction.html" title="Part I. General Installation"><link rel="next" href="install.html" title="Chapter 2. How to Install and Test SAMBA"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part I. General Installation</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="IntroSMB"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">David</span> <span class="surname">Lechnyr</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Unofficial HOWTO<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:david@lechnyr.com">david@lechnyr.com</a>&gt;</tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 14, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885613">Background</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885824">Terminology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885978">Related Projects</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2886047">SMB Methodology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2886135">Epilogue</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2886209">Miscellaneous</a></dt></dl></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">
&quot;If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.&quot;
-- Anonymous
</span>&#8221;</p><p>
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ transport protocol. In fact, it can support any SMB/CIFS-enabled client. One of
strengths is that you can use it to blend your mix of Windows and Linux machines together
without requiring a separate Windows NT/2000/2003 Server. Samba is actively being developed
by a global team of about 30 active programmers and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell.
-</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2885255"></a>Background</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2885613"></a>Background</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
Once long ago, there was a buzzword referred to as DCE/RPC. This stood for Distributed
Computing Environment/Remote Procedure Calls and conceptually was a good idea. It was
originally developed by Apollo/HP as NCA 1.0 (Network Computing Architecture) and only
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ been dutifully waded through during the information-gathering stages of this pro
are *still* many missing pieces... While often tedious, at least the way has been generously
littered with occurrences of clapping hand to forehead and muttering 'crikey, what are they
thinking?
-</em></span></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2885309"></a>Terminology</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
+</em></span></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2885824"></a>Terminology</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
SMB: Acronym for &quot;Server Message Block&quot;. This is Microsoft's file and printer sharing protocol.
</p></li><li><p>
CIFS: Acronym for &quot;Common Internet File System&quot;. Around 1996, Microsoft apparently
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ thinking?
W3K: Acronym for Windows 2003 Server
</p></li></ul></div><p>If you plan on getting help, make sure to subscribe to the Samba Mailing List (available at
<a href="http://www.samba.org/" target="_top">http://www.samba.org</a>).
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2884034"></a>Related Projects</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2885978"></a>Related Projects</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
There are currently two network filesystem client projects for Linux that are directly
related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS VFS. These are both available in the Linux kernel itself.
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS VFS. These are both available in the Linux ker
</p></li><li><p>
CIFS VFS (Common Internet File System Virtual File System) is the successor to SMBFS, and
is being actively developed for the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module
- is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical
+ is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (hierarchical
name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock),
optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional
Winbind (nsswitch) integration.
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients.
There are other Open Source CIFS client implementations, such as the
<a href="http://jcifs.samba.org/" target="_top">jCIFS project</a>
which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2884102"></a>SMB Methodology</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2886047"></a>SMB Methodology</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
Traditionally, SMB uses UDP port 137 (NetBIOS name service, or netbios-ns),
UDP port 138 (NetBIOS datagram service, or netbios-dgm), and TCP port 139 (NetBIOS
session service, or netbios-ssn). Anyone looking at their network with a good
@@ -138,7 +137,7 @@ up a single file. In general, SMB sessions are established in the following orde
A good way to examine this process in depth is to try out
<a href="http://www.securityfriday.com/ToolDownload/SWB/swb_doc.html" target="_top">SecurityFriday's SWB program</a>.
It allows you to walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2884189"></a>Epilogue</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2886135"></a>Epilogue</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>&#8220;<span class="quote">
What's fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any taste when they
did it. Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good,
but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft
@@ -167,7 +166,7 @@ not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking
That's what's really irritating to me.&quot;
</span>&#8221;</p><p>--
<a href="http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/boot.txt" target="_top">Linus Torvalds, from an interview with BOOT Magazine, Sept 1998</a>
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2884263"></a>Miscellaneous</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2886209"></a>Miscellaneous</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
This chapter is Copyright 2003 David Lechnyr (david at lechnyr dot com).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free