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What is SAMBA and is it available?

April 26, 2017Amiga hardware networking pc Samba

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What is SAMBA and is it available?

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SAMBA is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to access Unix filespace and printers via the SMB (Session Message Block) protocol. In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to Unix disks and printers from LAN Manager clients, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT clients and OS/2 clients. There is also a Unix client program supplied as part of the suie which allows Unis users to use an ftp-like interface to access filespace and printers on any other SMB servers. Summary of SAMBA suite components: smbd the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients nmbd the Netbios name server, which helps clients locate servers smbclient the Unix-hosted client program smbrun a little “glue’ program to help the server run external programs testprns a program to test server acess to printers testparms a program to test the SAMBA config file for corectness smb.conf The SAMBA config file smbprint a sample script to allow a Unix host to use s