Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Australian Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.It can provide file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients. It can also integrate with a Windows Server domain. An Active Directory domain can also make it a part of.
The Unix and Unix-like systems are the platforms where samba runs on. The Mac OS X Server can also run samba. Now all distributions of Linux contain samba as a standard part of the package. The SMB (Server Message Block) is where the name samba comes from.

Features
The computers running Windows and computers running Unix can share the files and printer using samba utility. dozens of services and a dozen protocols are implemented in the samba.The NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT), SMB, CIFS DCE/RPC, NBNS, SAM ,LSA etc are some of the protocols and services that are implemented in the samba. A modified version of Kerberos active logon is also implemented. network shares for chosen Unix directories are setup by samba. These folders appear like normal Windows folders which are shared ans can be accessed via the network. In the unix, smbmount command can be used to mount the shares directly as part of their file structure .
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