Want to know about Samba Server ?
By manu_ghimire
@manu_ghimire (2626)
India
March 26, 2008 5:16am CST
does anybody had worked on Samba Server ? what is it ? how to configure it ? i am running Red hat 9.0 , will i be able to use it ? plz help
1 response
@emiliano75 (680)
• Italy
16 Apr 08
Samba is a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, originally developed by Australian Andrew Tridgell. Samba is released under the GNU General Public License. The name Samba comes from SMB (Server Message Block), the name of the standard protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system.
As of version 3 Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or as a domain member. It can also be part of an Active Directory domain. Samba runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Solaris, and the BSD variants, including Apple's Mac OS X Server (which was added to the Mac OS X client in version 10.2). Samba is standard on nearly all distributions of Linux and is commonly included as a basic system service on other Unix-based operating systems as well.
Official website for this project is: http://us1.samba.org/samba/