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Introduction to Samba

Introduction to Samba - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tutorial

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Introduction to Samba

- [Instructor] What was known as the Server Message Block, or SMB, is now known as Common Internet File System, or CIFS. Samba gets its name from SMB. SMB was created by some industry heavy weights, as it was a collaboration between IBM, Microsoft, and Intel in the late 1980s. SMB differs from NFS in that it's both a file and print sharing protocol, whereas NFS only shares files. In the Windows world, SMB slash CIFS is the defacto standard for sharing files and printers. Samba was created to offer Windows file and print services to Linux hosts, and in the end, can provide such services back to Windows clients from Linux servers. In many cases, it even makes sense to have a Linux machine providing Windows file and print services to other Linux or Unix machines, because it works quite well, even if there's no Windows machines involved. Benefits to running Samba include the ability to allow Linux hosts to access Windows shares and printers. Also, Samba can provide file and print services…

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