Chapter 6. Samba

Table of Contents
6.1. What is Samba?
6.2. What is it able to do?
6.3. Samba Installation
6.4. Description of the file /etc/smb.conf
6.4.1. [global] section
6.4.2. Setting up a share
6.4.3. [homes] section
6.4.4. [printers] section
6.5. Checks and launch
6.6. Some tools
6.6.1. smbclient
6.6.2. smbfs
6.6.3. smbtar
6.7. GUI tool: SWAT

6.1. What is Samba?

Well, you must think, an implementation of an exotic dance for GNU/Linux. What does this mean, indeed? No, it has nothing to do with the Brazilian dance. It is a server for SMB clients (the Server Message Block) or its successor CIFS (Common Internet File System).


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