systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team, who support the
original author, Andrew Tridgell.
->>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
->>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
+**Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
+about the configuration and use of Samba.**
NOTE: Installation instructions may be found
for the file/print server and domain member in:
docs/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/install.html
- For the AD DC implementation a full HOWTO is provided at:
+For the AD DC implementation a full HOWTO is provided at:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
-called COPYING).
+called COPYING).
WHAT IS SMB/CIFS?
=================
-This is a big question.
+This is a big question.
The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
PC-related machines share files and printers and other information
such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
-support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives),
-OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux. Add on packages that achieve the same
-thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds,
-MVS, and more. Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well
-(smb://). Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk,
-Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are
-both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines
+support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives),
+OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux. Add on packages that achieve the same
+thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds,
+MVS, and more. Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well
+(smb://). Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk,
+Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are
+both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines
by default.
The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
with their Unix servers.
2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
- servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop
+ servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop
clients.
3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt included with this README for
a list of features in the latest Samba release.
-Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does.
-For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides
+Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does.
+For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides
a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
-- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
+- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
- a Windows Domain Controller (NT4 and AD) replacement.
- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0
or Active Directory domain.
-- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives
+- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives
browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
Related packages include:
-- cifsvfs, an advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount
- remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included
+- cifsvfs, an advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount
+ remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included
as standard with Linux 2.5 and later.
- smbfs, the previous Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
2. If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
(preferably in "diff -u" format, see https://www.samba.org/samba/devel/
-for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or
+for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or
suggestions to the address samba@lists.samba.org. More information
on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at https://lists.samba.org/.
available on the web page.
If you would like to help with the documentation, please coordinate
-on the samba@samba.org mailing list. See the next section for details
+on the samba@samba.org mailing list. See the next section for details
on subscribing to samba mailing lists.
https://www.samba.org/
-As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
+As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
archives of the mailing list and a user survey that shows who else is using
this package.
git.samba.org / vlendec / samba-autobuild / .git / commitdiff