On Monday 12 March 2007, Peter Van Lone wrote: > Can someone provide me a quick high-level description of the > distinguishing characteristics? >
Samba is a service that allows you to PUBLISH shares for other computers to mount. smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows box. (perhaps to do a backup or some such) Most users of samba are using it to provide file and print services to windows boxes so they never get involved with smbfs/cifs. In a mixed shop of linux/windows workstations, samba shares or Windows Nt shares become the logical way to go, hence the need for cifs/smbfs on the Linux worstations. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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