From 1a66b224eddf3c0190cf7cfadf363efaadbba412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelmer Vernooij See the
-meta FAQ introduction if you don't have any idea what Samba does. Samba has many features that are not supported in other CIFS and SMB
-implementations, all of which are commercial. It approaches some
-problems from a different angle. Some of its features include:
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-1. What is Samba?
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Look at the -manual pages included with the package for a full list of -features. The components of the suite are (in summary):
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the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients, -doing all the interfacing with the -authentication database for file, permission and username work.
- -the NetBIOS name server, which helps clients locate servers, -maintaining the -authentication database doing the browsing work and managing -domains as this capability is being built into Samba.
- -the scriptable commandline SMB client program. -Useful for automated work, printer filters and testing purposes. It is -more CIFS-compliant than most commercial implementations. Note that this -is not a filesystem. The Samba team does not supply a network filesystem -driver, although the smbfs filesystem for Linux is derived from -smbclient code.
- -a little 'glue' program to help the server run -external programs.
- -a program to test server access to printers
- -a program to test the Samba configuration file -for correctness
- -the Samba configuration file
- -many examples have been put together for the different -operating systems that Samba supports.
- -DON'T neglect to read it - you will save a great -deal of time!
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