Difference between revisions of "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

official site

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

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-[[Samba]] is a program which allows communication between Linux and Windows. It is named after the SMB protocol, which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.
+<hide>
-==How To==
+[[page type::article]]
-===Restart the Samba Server===
+[[thing type::software]]
-If you have Fedora Core, there's a convenient little "services" application you can use to restart Samba and several dozen other services. For the rest of us, however, there's a command you have to execute from a root terminal.
+[[software type::server]]
+[[category:software]]
-On Ubuntu, and probably other Debian-based systems:
+</hide>
- /etc/init.d/samba restart
+==About==
+[[Samba]] is open-source server software which allows "[[Network Neighborhood]]"-style communication between [[Microsoft Windows]] and other [[operating system]]s such as [[Linux]]. It is named after the [[SMB protocol]], which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.
-On Red Hat, I'm told the command would be:
+==Pages==
- /sbin/samba restart
+* {{l/sub|browser}}: debugging master/domain browser issues
+* {{l/sub|commands}} for interacting with Samba
-(Possibly substituting "smb" for "samba"; ls the directory in question to find a list of services.) This is the same general technique used for restarting services, which should itself probably be documented somewhere. (The Samba share configuration GUI program really ought to have a "restart Samba server" button, though, even if it does this automatically when you change parameters -- because there is no way to know if it is doing this otherwise.)
+* {{l/sub|how-to}}: specific things
+* {{l/sub|printing}}: using Samba to serve shared printers
-==Reference==
+* {{l/sub|files}}: what the files mean and where they are kept
-*[[wikipedia:Samba software]]
+==Errors==
-*[[wikipedia:Server Message Block]]: SMB protocol
+* [[The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available]]: a Samba-related error on Windows XP
+==Links==
+===Official===
+* [http://samba.org official site]
+===Reference===
+* '''Wikipedia''':
+** {{l/wp|Samba software}}
+** {{l/wp|Server Message Block}}: the SMB protocol
+===Articles===
+* '''1999-11''' [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch03_01.html 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)
+* [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1138772,00.html Managing Samba: Choose your weapon &ndash; Windows network ID basics]: seems to cover some useful concepts