Samba for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Working With a Cross-platform Set of Tools to Share Print and File Resources Across Networks"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Samba is a suite of tools for sharing print and file resources across a network, and is cross-platform. Samba can be used by network administrators who must work with different platforms.

Samba runs on a Unix or Linux server, turning those operating systems into a file and printer server for Windows clients. In effect it makes a Unix or Linux server masquerade as a Windows network, so users can work with files stored on the server without a technical hitch.

It runs on the Server Manager Block (SMB) protocol developed by Microsoft and IBM. It send low level data between Windows clients and Unix servers or on a TCP/IP network.

Samba is open source, GNU license software

It is robust and flexible and can be used for file storage on a Windows networking operating system.

Microsoft has renamed SMB to Common Internet File System (CIFS) and so the protocol is now often called SMB/CIFS.

It was created by Andrew Tridgell of Australia in 1991. It uses two daemons: smbd and nmbd. The client is called a smbclient.

Samba is a network file system and runs on a lot of operating systems platforms.

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