Unix Samba Server
Unix - Windows file sharing
Set Windows machines to understand Unix NFS ( Microsoft Services for Unix ).
-- Kind of useless with existence of Cygwin and Samba
Set Unix to appear as an SMB file server to Windows ( Samba, Sun PC Link ).
-- Very powerful tools.
In early 90-s, Andrew Tridgell wrote a server software to share
Unix files with PC clients on SMB basis.
Later, he called the software Samba.
Now days, Samba is being developed by the Open Source community:
Samba services bind to TCP/UDP ports 137 -- 139 and
provide CIFS functionality:
nmbd - Windows name resolution and browsing.
smbd - File sharing and Authentication
Starting from version 3.0, Samba supports Kerberos and can be bound to
an Active Directory Domain.
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