Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Alexander Klayman <aklayman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 May 2002 20:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 25 May 2002 01.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> > Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows
> > my Linux system to see a W2k system?
>
> The name of the protocol that Microsoft uses to communicate between
> machines is called the Server Message Block, or SMB. They had to come up
> with a cool project name for smb, and samba was a natural choice :)
>
> And yes, it allows a windows machine to talk to a linux box, and vice
> versa.
>

But it sounds like Tom Nielsen only needs a Samba client, not a Samba server.  
The server can replace a windows 2000/NT Network Domain and Workgroup server.