25 May
2002
25 May
'02
00:25
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.