On 07/28/2014 01:20 PM, Paul Hill wrote:
On 28 July 2014 16:16, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
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)
I had the client working on a Commodore Amiga back in the day...
I did a Google on SAMBA, (eg SAMBA - Window versus Linux servers) and
found an interesting link.
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Excerpt:
We may love our Linux boxes, but most of us will at some point need to
co-exist on a network with Windows machines, and will know Samba as the
thing that enables sharing filesystems between Linux and Windows.
But it does much more than that and, with version 4, is fully compatible
with Microsoft's Active Directory.
This is a big thing. Samba has long been able to act as a Windows NT 4.0
Domain Controller, or join an existing Windows NT 4.0 Domain but, with
the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft started moving away from NT
Domain controllers to their new Active Directory, widening the gap
between the Linux and Windows ecosystems.
Samba version 4 provides the long-awaited remedy to this issue by being
fully compatible with Active Directory. It fully implements the Active
Directory domain controller functionality, making it an effective
replacement for the equivalent functions in Microsoft's Windows Server
product line.
Samba is an open source implementation of the Server Message Block, or
SMB, protocol. It is an application-layer network protocol that was
originally developed by IBM to provide shared access to files and
printers. Microsoft extended its implementation of SMB to support
authentication using its own NT LAN Manager (NTLM) and, later, NTLMv2
protocols.
It called this implementation the Common Internet File System, or CIFS.
Further extensions, including support for symbolic links, were released
as SMB2 with Windows Vista.
Samba has supported SMB2 since version 3.6. Microsoft introduced SMB2.1
with Windows 7 and SMB3 with Windows 8. It calls the differing versions
of the protocol "dialects", so CIFS and SMB2 are dialects of the SMB
protocol.
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Whilst these dialects are proprietary, their specifications are publicly
available: one of the outcomes of Microsoft's settlement with the European
Courts in 2004 was the release of full documentation for network
authentication with Active Directory. This led to the development of
version 4 of Samba, with Microsoft itself being involved in the testing.
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/networking/samba-4-share-filesystems-between-linux-and-windows-1154705/1
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Regards,
LelandJ
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