CHAPTER 19Configuring a Windows File Sharing (Samba) Server
Samba is the project that implements open source versions of protocols used to share files and printers among Windows systems as well as authenticate users and restrict hosts. Samba offers a number of ways to share files among Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems that are well known and readily available to users of those systems.
This chapter steps you through the process of installing and configuring a Samba server. It describes the security features that you need to know to share your file and printer resources and describes how to access those resources from Linux and Windows systems.
Understanding Samba
Samba (https://samba.org) is a suite of programs that allows Linux, UNIX, and other systems to interoperate with Microsoft Windows file and printer sharing protocols. Windows, MacOS, and other client systems can access Samba servers to share files and printers in the same ways that they would from Windows file and print servers.
With Samba, you can use standard TCP/IP networking to communicate with clients. For name service, Samba supports regular TCP/IP hostnames as well as NetBIOS names. For that reason, Samba doesn't require the NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol. File sharing is done using Server Message ...
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