Samba Server FAQ: What is Samba?

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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.

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: -

extremely dynamic runtime configuration
host as well as username/password security
scriptable SMB client
automatic home directory exporting
automatic printer exporting
intelligent dead connection timeouts
guest connections

Look at the -manual pages included with the package for a full list of -features. The components of the suite are (in summary):

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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