Samba?

[mikeshn]

Can someone explain to me what is SAMBA in LINUX?

Thanks in advance

 

[TonyRic]

Samba is a piece of software that provides the Unix community with the tools needed to connect to Windows networking.

If you map a drive in a Windows Client to a Windows Server, you will be able to access that network resource via the SMB protocol. This provides UNIX with the same capabilities for a UNIX Client OR a UNIX Server.

Hope this answers your question.

 

[mikeshn]

TonyRic , thanks a lot

 

[bubba]

It also allows you to use a Linux server to serve to a Windows network. I think it is most often used this way, to have a stable, robust, low overhead server for Windows clients.

 

[DaHitman]

It allows a LINUX/UNIX/BSD system to do the following:

[*]Be a windows fileserver and access windows fileshares
[*]Be a winows print server and access windows printshares
[*]Be a Windows NT DOMAIN PDC, and participate in a NT Domain and be a PDC client

[*]Soon... it will allow a UNIX box to be an Active Directory server as well.. (in beta now)



Bascailly, you can totally replace an NT Server with it.. and for much less money and PLUS you get 100% better performance and almost 4X as many clients per server according to PC-Magazine...



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