HP CIFS Server 3.0f Administrator's Guide verison A.02.03

Samba Server Description and Features
With the Samba suite of programs, systems running UNIX and UNIX-like OSs are able to provide services
using the Microsoft networking protocol. This capability makes it possible for DOS and Windows machines
using native networking clients supplied by Microsoft to access a UNIX file system and/or printers.
As a user, you will see the UNIX file system as a drive-letter or an icon in the "Network Neighborhood" and
you will be able to open files from inside your Windows program as if they are stored on your local system.
To accomplish this, Samba implements the Server Message Block (SMB) networking protocol on top of
NetBios over TCP/IP.
For a complete discussion of Samba and its protocols, refer to chapters 1 and 2, in Using Samba by Robert
Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly.
To access the Samba web site, go to http://www.samba.org.
The Open Source Software (OSS) Samba Suite 19