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1. What is Samba?

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See the +meta FAQ introduction if you don't have any idea what Samba does.

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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.

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Some of its features include: +

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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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smbd

the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients, +doing all the interfacing with the +authentication database for file, permission and username work.

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nmbd

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.

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smbclient

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.

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smbrun

a little 'glue' program to help the server run +external programs.

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testprns

a program to test server access to printers

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testparms

a program to test the Samba configuration file +for correctness

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smb.conf

the Samba configuration file

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examples

many examples have been put together for the different +operating systems that Samba supports.

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Documentation!

DON'T neglect to read it - you will save a great +deal of time!

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