HP CIFS Server 3.0g Administrator's Guide verison A.02.03.01

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.
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