Samba
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About
Samba is open-source server software which allows "Network Neighborhood"-style communication between Microsoft Windows and other operating systems such as Linux. It is named after the SMB protocol, which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.
Pages
- browser: debugging master/domain browser issues
- commands for interacting with Samba
- how-to: specific things
- printing: using Samba to serve shared printers
- files: what the files mean and where they are kept
Errors
- The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available: a Samba-related error on Windows XP
Links
Official
Reference
- Wikipedia:
- Samba software
- Server Message Block: the SMB protocol
Articles
- 1999-11 Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Clients from the book Using Samba by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly (this shows how to set up Win9x machines for non-anonymous connection to Samba)
- Managing Samba: Choose your weapon – Windows network ID basics: seems to cover some useful concepts