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SambaJul 10, 2000, 13:03 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by
William Wong) [ Thanks to Kevin Reichard for this link. ]
"Server Message Block (SMB), also known as Common Internet File
System (CIFS), is one of the most common protocols for sharing
files on a network. It is used with Microsoft Windows and,
through Samba, a variety of other operating systems include
Linux. Samba provides a way to share the contents of Linux
directories with other computers and to access shared
directories on a remote computer. The type of remote computer
does not matter. It could be a computer running Sun Solaris or
Windows NT." "This article assumes that the Linux computer has a
network adapter installed as described in the previous section
and that the network adapter is assigned a unique IP address.
Likewise, the Samba software is installed. With Red Hat and many
other Linux distributions, this is done via an rpm package. This
can be done when Linux is installed or afterw