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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.

31 What is SAMBA and is it available?

SAMBA is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to access Unix
filespace and printers via the SMB (Session Message Block) protocol.
In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to Unix disks and
printers from LAN Manager clients, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT
clients and OS/2 clients.  There is also a Unix client program supplied as part of
the suie which allows Unis users to use an ftp-like interface to access filespace
and printers on any other SMB servers.
Summary of SAMBA suite components:
 smbd       the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients
 nmbd       the Netbios name server, which helps clients locate servers
 smbclient  the Unix-hosted client program
 smbrun     a little "glue' program to help the server run external programs
 testprns   a program to test server acess to printers
 testparms  a program to test the SAMBA config file for corectness
 smb.conf   The SAMBA config file
 smbprint   a sample script to allow a Unix host to use smbclient to print
            to an SMB server
Although this is the UNIX suite summary, the source code is available and   SAMBA  
has been ported to the Amiga. SAMBA is of particular use to Lightwave users to
move files between the Amiga and a PC.

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