On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, raghavendra chary wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance what is this samba? > > Raghu >
Hi Raghu: You want to: share a folder on Linux with a Windows client share a folder on Windows with a BSD/Linux client share a folder on Windows with a Unix client on a "LAN network". How do you do it ? You need to have an application level network protocol that can provide access to resource on the network. Examples of resources are : Files, Printers, Serial ports etc. SMB or Server Message Block protocol is the implementation for Windows. This is a proprietary solution developed by Microsoft. Andrew Tridgwell an Australian hacker effectively packet sniffed and reverse engineered SMB/CIFS to create an Open Source implementation of the same protocol, called Samba. This project of his is well known as the 'SAMBA' project. Today when the term Samba has come to represent a Suite of protocols implemented such as: . DEC Pathworks . SMB (Server Message Block) . CIFS (basically enhanced SMB) . NetBIOS over TCP/IP . DCE RPC (Remote Procedure Call) . MS RPC . WINS (Windows Name Service) . NBNS (NetBIOS Name Service) . LSA (Local Security Authority) . NTDL (NT Domain Logon) . SAM (Secure Account Manager) . NTLM (NT LAN Manager) . ADL (Active Directory Logon) . SPOOLSS (NT Print Services) This is a very important area for ensuring unified interoperability between windows and BSD/Linux clients on the network. Thank you for asking this important question. Please feel free to ask all the questions, doubts, queries you may have. At Twincling, we have tremendous respect for the 'newbie' and we consider a newbie as an asset. This is so because we are a Technology focussed foundation and not some lug ! Because of your query, many people who are silent (and who also don't know) have benefited on this technical topic. I'll encourage you to go ahead and try to install and configure the service. If you face any issues, please feel free to drop in a mail with the error log and we'll help you fix the issue. Have a nice evening. regards Saifi.
