Samba - opening windows to a wider world
Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others. Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments.
Just what is SMB? - Samba
2002年10月8日 · Samba is a freely available SMB server for UNIX, OpenVMS (recently ported and maybe not very stable) developed by Andrew Tridgell and maintained by a loosely knit group of people all over the world. Samba runs on a great many UNIX variants (Linux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, ULTRIX, DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Dynix (Sequent), IRIX (SGI), SCO Open ...
Download - Samba
All major Linux and Free Unix distributions have Samba as a native package. See your distributor's package or port system for a native install of samba on your system. https://samba.plus/ offers Samba packages for SLES, RHEL, and Debian and AIX.
What is Samba?
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. Since 1992 , Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.
smb.conf - Samba
If the connection uses SMB1, then this option controls the use of a Samba-specific extension to the SMB protocol introduced in Samba 3.2 that makes use of the Unix extensions. If the connection uses SMB2 or newer, then this option controls the use of the SMB-level encryption that is supported in SMB version 3.0 and above and available in ...
SambaWiki
Samba is an Open Source / Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Chapter 6. The Samba Configuration File
The Samba configuration file, called smb.conf by default, uses the same format as Windows .ini files. If you have ever worked with a .ini file, you will find smb.conf easy to create and modify. Even if you haven't, you will find the format to be simple and easy to learn.
Setting up Samba as a Standalone Server
Samba can be configured to automatically create linux user accounts after successful samba authentication, using the [global] add user script smb.conf option. Unfortunately this option does not work as intended at end-user access time, but it can be leveraged to simplify adding users to your samba Standalone Server.
[PATCH v2] smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace.
Saw your similar fix in the NFS client, thanks for attending to the SMB client as well. Question below... > CIFS uses kernel sockets, which do not hold refcnt of the netns that > the socket belongs to. That means CIFS must ensure the socket is > always freed before its netns; otherwise, use-after-free happens.
Documentation - Samba
The documentation (and in particular the man pages) given on this web page are taken from the latest development version of Samba. If you are using an earlier version of Samba then you may find some differences.