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This is a development version of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
server for UNIX and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
>>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
@ -13,35 +13,36 @@ copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
called COPYING).
WHAT IS SMB?
============
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 NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers
can speak this protocol as well. 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.
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 Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
==============================
1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft or IBM style desktop
machines with their Unix or VMS (etc) servers.
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
or VMS (etc) servers. This is a different problem to integrating
desktop clients.
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.
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WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
==================
Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. For
many networks this can be simply summarised by "Samba provides a complete
replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
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 NT 4.0 Domain Controller 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
printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems
- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
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Related packages include:
- smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with
- smbfs, a 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.
- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip.
- cifsvfs, a more 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.
- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/smblib.
CONTRIBUTIONS
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If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
samba@lists.samba.org.
(preferably in "diff -u" format, see http://samba.org/samba/devel/
for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or
suggestions to the address samba@lists.samba.org. More information
on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at http://lists.samba.org/.
You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see
http://samba.org/cvs.html.
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who added it, then send them an email.
Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
we get. If noone tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
we get. If no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
something else. However, as you can see from the user survey quite a lot of
people do seem to like it at the moment :-)
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-------------
There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
including man pages, and lots of .html files with hints and useful
info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
collection of information under docs/faq; by the next release expect
this to be the default starting point.
collection of information under docs/.
A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
available on the web page.
If you would like to help with the documentation (and we _need_ help!)
then have a look at the mailing list samba-docs, archived at
http://lists.samba.org/
http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/samba-docs/
MAILING LIST
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NEWS GROUP
----------
You might also like to look at the usenet news group
comp.protocols.smb as it often contains lots of useful info and is
frequented by lots of Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup
by people on the Samba mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to
Samba, it is a forum for discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba
implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
You might also like to look at the usenet news group comp.protocols.smb
as it often contains lots of useful info and is frequented by lots of
Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup by people on the Samba
mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to Samba, it is a forum for
discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba implements). The samba list
is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
WEB SITE