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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. | ||
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>>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information | ||
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called COPYING). | ||
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WHAT IS SMB? | ||
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WHAT IS SMB/CIFS? | ||
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This is a big question. | ||
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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. | ||
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The Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative | ||
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. | ||
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The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative | ||
is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs. | ||
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WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB? | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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? | ||
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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. | ||
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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." | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement. | ||
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- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0 | ||
or Active Directory domain. | ||
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- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives | ||
browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish. | ||
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- 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 | ||
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- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs | ||
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Related packages include: | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- 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. | ||
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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 | ||
[email protected]. | ||
(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 [email protected]. More information | ||
on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at http://lists.samba.org/. | ||
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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. | ||
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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/. | ||
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A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is | ||
available on the web page. | ||
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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/ | ||
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MAILING LIST | ||
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NEWS GROUP | ||
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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. | ||
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WEB SITE | ||
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