On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, raghavendra chary wrote: > > > > > Pardon my ignorance what is this samba? > > > > Raghu > > > > Hi Raghu: > > You want to: > share a folder on Linux with a Windows client > share a folder on Windows with a BSD/Linux client > share a folder on Windows with a Unix client > on a "LAN network". > > How do you do it ? > > You need to have an application level network protocol that can > provide access to resource on the network. Examples of resources > are : Files, Printers, Serial ports etc. > > SMB or Server Message Block protocol is the implementation for > Windows. This is a proprietary solution developed by Microsoft. > > Andrew Tridgwell an Australian hacker effectively packet sniffed > and reverse engineered SMB/CIFS to create an Open Source > implementation of the same protocol, called Samba. > > This project of his is well known as the 'SAMBA' project. > > Today when the term Samba has come to represent a Suite of > protocols implemented such as: > . DEC Pathworks > . SMB (Server Message Block) > . CIFS (basically enhanced SMB) > . NetBIOS over TCP/IP > . DCE RPC (Remote Procedure Call) > . MS RPC > . WINS (Windows Name Service) > . NBNS (NetBIOS Name Service) > . LSA (Local Security Authority) > . NTDL (NT Domain Logon) > . SAM (Secure Account Manager) > . NTLM (NT LAN Manager) > . ADL (Active Directory Logon) > . SPOOLSS (NT Print Services) > > This is a very important area for ensuring unified > interoperability between windows and BSD/Linux clients on the > network. > > Thank you for asking this important question. > > Please feel free to ask all the questions, doubts, queries you > may have. > > At Twincling, we have tremendous respect for the 'newbie' and we > consider a newbie as an asset. This is so because we are a > Technology focussed foundation and not some lug ! > > Because of your query, many people who are silent (and who also > don't know) have benefited on this technical topic. > > I'll encourage you to go ahead and try to install and configure > the service. If you face any issues, please feel free to drop in > a mail with the error log and we'll help you fix the issue. > > Have a nice evening. > > regards > Saifi. > _ > Hi Saifi , Thanks for your detailed reply and I really mean it.** >From now I can feel free to ask any kind of query or doubt Am I allowed to ask the questions about Linux only? or Can I ask questions about windows and its pluggins also? Thanks and Regards Raghu
