On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, at 03:28 PM, Desmond Lloyd wrote: Why would you use > SAMBA, all of his servers are Windows servers, SAMBA is primarily a > Linux > product isn't it?
Samba is a free, open-source implementation of the Microsoft Server Message Block network protocol, used on *nix clients (so Linux, Unix, Mac etc) Yes, it allows these operating systems to access Windows shared resources (drives, printers, Active Directory). No, there's no way or need to use it on Windows clients. I suspect they are confused and are actually talking about actual SMB / SMB2/ SMB3 on a purely Windows network in which case recent discussions of same on this list would apply. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
