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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/IntroSMB.html b/docs/htmldocs/IntroSMB.html index f9c2539112..6d267d5b72 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/IntroSMB.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/IntroSMB.html @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -<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"><<a href="mailto:david@lechnyr.com">david@lechnyr.com</a>></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>“<span class="quote"> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<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"><<a href="mailto:david@lechnyr.com">david@lechnyr.com</a>></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#id2885266">Background</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2885320">Terminology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884044">Related Projects</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884112">SMB Methodology</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884199">Epilogue</a></dt><dt><a href="IntroSMB.html#id2884272">Miscellaneous</a></dt></dl></div><p>“<span class="quote"> "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- Anonymous </span>”</p><p> @@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ 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="id2885613"></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="id2885266"></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 @@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ 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="id2885824"></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="id2885320"></a>Terminology</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> SMB: Acronym for "Server Message Block". This is Microsoft's file and printer sharing protocol. </p></li><li><p> CIFS: Acronym for "Common Internet File System". Around 1996, Microsoft apparently @@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ 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="id2885978"></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="id2884044"></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> @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ 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="id2886047"></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="id2884112"></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 @@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ 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="id2886135"></a>Epilogue</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>“<span class="quote"> +</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2884199"></a>Epilogue</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>“<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 @@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking That's what's really irritating to me." </span>”</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="id2886209"></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="id2884272"></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 |