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This is the release version of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
server and Domain Controller for UNIX and other operating
systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team, who support the
original author, Andrew Tridgell.
About Samba
===========
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of
programs for Linux and Unix.
Samba is Free Software licensed under the GNU General Public License and
the Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services
for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS
and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.
Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and
Desktops into Active Directory environments. It can function both as a
domain controller or as a regular domain member.
**Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
about the configuration and use of Samba.**
NOTE: Installation instructions may be found
for the file/print server and domain member in:
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called COPYING).
WHAT IS SMB/CIFS?
=================
This is a big question.
The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
PC-related machines share files and printers and other information
such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives),
OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux. Add on packages that achieve the same
thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds,
MVS, and more. Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well
(smb://). Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk,
Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are
both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines
by default.
The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
is called. For details watch https://www.samba.org/cifs/.
WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
==============================
1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft desktop clients
with their Unix servers.
2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop
clients.
3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
especially when used with PCs.
WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
==================
Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt included with this README for
a list of features in the latest Samba release.
Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does.
For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides
a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
- a Windows Domain Controller (NT4 and AD) replacement.
- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0
or Active Directory domain.
- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives
browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems
- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative
functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
For a much better overview have a look at the website at
https://www.samba.org/samba/, and browse the user survey.
Related packages include:
- cifsvfs, an advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount
remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included
as standard with Linux 2.5 and later.
- smbfs, the previous Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included as standard with
Linux 2.0 and later.
CONTRIBUTIONS
=============
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we get. If no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
something else.
MORE INFO
=========
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As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
archives of the mailing list and links to other useful resources such as
the wiki.