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Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba

David Lechnyr

Unofficial HOWTO

April 14, 2003

Table of Contents

Background
Terminology
Related Projects
SMB Methodology
Epilogue
Miscellaneous

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Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba
Prev Part I. General Installation Next

Chapter 1. Introduction to Samba

David Lechnyr

Unofficial HOWTO

April 14, 2003

Table of Contents

Background
Terminology
Related Projects
SMB Methodology
Epilogue
Miscellaneous

“ "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- Anonymous ”

@@ -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. -

Background

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Background

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? -

Terminology

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Terminology

  • SMB: Acronym for "Server Message Block". This is Microsoft's file and printer sharing protocol.

  • CIFS: Acronym for "Common Internet File System". Around 1996, Microsoft apparently @@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ thinking? W3K: Acronym for Windows 2003 Server

If you plan on getting help, make sure to subscribe to the Samba Mailing List (available at http://www.samba.org). -

Related Projects

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Related Projects

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.

  • @@ -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 jCIFS project which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java. -

SMB Methodology

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SMB Methodology

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 SecurityFriday's SWB program. It allows you to walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step. -

Epilogue

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Epilogue

“ 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 @@ -167,9 +166,9 @@ not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking That's what's really irritating to me." ”

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Miscellaneous

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Miscellaneous

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 Software Foundation. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt. -

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