February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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An Overview of the Samba Distribution
As mentioned earlier, Samba actually contains several programs that serve different but related purposes. These programs are documented more fully in Appendix C. For now, we will introduce each of them briefly and describe how they work together.
The majority of the programs that come with Samba center on its two daemons. Let’s take a refined look at the responsibilities of each daemon:
- nmbd
The nmbd daemon is a simple name server that supplies WINS functionality. This daemon listens for name-server requests and provides the appropriate IP addresses when called upon. It also provides browse lists for the Network Neighborhood and participates in browsing elections.
- smbd
The smbd daemon manages the shared resources between the Samba server and its clients. It provides file, print, and browse services to SMB clients across one or more networks and handles all notifications between the Samba server and the network clients. In addition, it is responsible for user authentication, resource locking, and data sharing through the SMB protocol.
New with Version 2.2, there is an additional daemon:
- winbindd
This daemon is used along with the name service switch to get information on users and groups from a Windows NT server and allows Samba to authorize users through a Windows NT/2000 server.
The Samba distribution also comes with a small set of Unix command-line tools:
- findsmb
A program that searches the local network for computers that respond to SMB ...
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