Samba Overview
Samba is an application that allows a Linux or UNIX host to act as a file server for Windows systems and Windows systems can access UNIX filesystems and printers using their native Windows networking. We'll demonstrate a Linux system mounting a Windows drive and a Windows system mapping a Linux drive in this section.
My goal in this section is to give an overview of the setup of Samba and demonstrate a subset of its functionality. In this section we'll use Red Hat Linux software used throughout this book; however, Samba is available for almost all Linux and UNIX variants.
Samba provides its file-sharing functionality using Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. SMB runs on top of TCP/IP. In our example in this section, both the Windows ...
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