On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, dattatraya wrote:
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->sorry, im a newbie so can anyone plase tell me what is samba, and can
->i use it on a standalone machine that has both win98se and rh6.0 so
->that i can each os can access each others info... sorry if this is too
->dumb. just guide me to where i can find more info
*** You would be surprised what you can find in /usr/doc! Since you're
starting it's more than logical for us to present you the answer on a
silver platter. Don't be surprised to get "RTFM" as an answer in a few
months. ;-)
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1.1 What is Samba?
Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message
Block) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use
SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this protocol,
Samba allows Unix servers to get in on the action, communicating with the
same networking protocol as Microsoft Windows products. Thus, a
Samba-enabled Unix machine can masquerade as a server on your Microsoft
network and offer the following services:
Share one or more file systems
Share printers installed on both the server and its clients
Assist clients with Network Neighborhood browsing
Authenticate clients logging onto a Windows domain
Provide or assist with WINS name server resolution
Samba is the brainchild of Andrew Tridgell, who currently heads the Samba
development team from his home of Canberra, Australia. The project was
born in 1991 when Andrew created a file server program for his local
network that supported an odd DEC protocol from Digital Pathworks.
Although he didn't know it at the time, that protocol later turned out to
be SMB. A few years later, he expanded upon his custom-made SMB server and
began distributing it as a product on the Internet under the name SMB
Server. However, Andrew couldn't keep that name - it already belonged to
another company's product - so he tried the following Unix renaming
approach:
grep -i 's.*m.*b' /usr/dict/words
And the response was:
salmonberry samba sawtimber scramble
Thus, the name "Samba" was born.
Which is a good thing, because our marketing people highly doubt you would
have picked up a book called "Using Salmonberry"!
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So, to put it very black and white, SAMBA is a LAN server that fools
Windows client by making them believe it's a NT server. From there on only
your imagination has limits.
It's a very nice program and it is becoming easier to administer now that
we have SWAT.
Cheers!
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