Talk:Samba (software)
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[edit] Samba origins dispute
I edited the Microsoft rewriting of history , Samba is a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS :
http://us1.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html
As the front page at samba.org says, "Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
Because of the importance of the SMB protocol in interacting with the dominant Microsoft Windows platform, coupled with the heavily modified nature of the SMB implementation present in that platform, the Samba project was created to provide a free implementation of a compatible SMB client and server for use with non-Microsoft operating systems.
It probably needs more language editing and validation of historical facts.
PDC and BDC are both part of active directory. A Samba server can act as a BDC/PDC in a network with and without Microsoft BDC/PDC systems. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by GerardM (talk • contribs) 11:31, January 27, 2004 (UTC)
lkcl: wrong. PDC and BDC are part of NT 3.5 / NT 4.0 Domains. the rest of the sentence is correct.
Samba, at the present time _cannot_ be an Active Directory Domain Controller: only XAD (http://padl.com) which is a proprietary product based on Free Software components, can do that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lkcl (talk • contribs) 21:36, September 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] clarify, please
The following sentence is hard to understand for me. Could anyone explain it / write it in a clearer way, please?
<< The list goes on, and is frequently lumped in people's heads as only the one protocol - usually NetBIOS or SMB (which is a bit like blaming DHCP for the problem of Email "Spam" because when a DHCP server gives you an IP address you get lots of unsolicited email). >> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.38.121.53 (talk • contribs) 14:06, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
lkcl: okay. basically, people go "i want a windows file server" and they get an implementation of the following protocols: TCP/IP, NETBEUI, NetBIOS, SMB, LANMAN, Network Neighbourhood, MSRPC, and the following services _on_ those protocols: an SMB server, a WINS server, a set of services comprising the Network Neighbourhood, a NETLOGON server, a SPOOLSS server, a SAM database server, an LSA server - the list goes on and frigging on.
now imagine the confusion that would result if a manager talked to an experienced unix sysadmin saying "i want you to switch off our dhcp server NOW because if you give out TCP/IP addresses, everyone gets "SPAM" email".
the parallel is this: when sysadmins think "bloody windows" they think "ports 135, 137, 138, 139 and 445".
but they haven't got a CLUE what's on those ports. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lkcl (talk • contribs) 21:36, September 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Samba and FAT
For people who reads zdnet or other media, the story about the relation between samba and FAT is completely false. Samba does not use FAT Filesystem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.7.26.14 (talk • contribs) 22:28, October 26, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Article name
Shouldn't it be "Samba (software)" instead of "Samba software"? The article is about software called "Samba". 83.71.59.194 12:21, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] On Portal:Free software, Samba is currently the selected article
Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was FreeBSD. Gronky 22:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article name
Wouldnt the correct name of the article be 'Samba (software)' instead of 'Samba software' ? -- Frap 12:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- Done, but there are a whole lot of double redirects which I don't really have the knowhow to fix efficiently at the moment. — JeremyTalk 07:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Screenshots
Are the screenshots really appropriate here? None of them are screenshots of Samba itself. Wouldn't these screenshots be more appropriate on the pages of the applications they show?
--ctrlsoft 18:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- More to the point, exactly what are those screenshots showing? It's not explained. I'm removing them now, for the record, they were these:
- --SKopp 19:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] remove samba "how-to" link?
the samba "how-to" linked on the bottom of the page contains a lot of incorrect information. For example, the explanation of the parameters "bind interfaces only" and "domain master" is just plain wrong. It also advices to set various parameters that are intended for performance tuning and should never be touched by novice uses.
I'm upstream for Samba so I don't feel comfortable removing the link.
--ctrlsoft 19:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Samba.svg
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BetacommandBot 23:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] smbclient
smbclient send message to windows operating system from linux use following command : - 1) smbclient -M hostname
2) echo hi|smbclient -M hostname
if we want to send a file content through smbclient
3) cat filename| smbclient -M hostname
from Vishal Jain Sr. S/W Eng. http://ubitechsolutions.com [[1]] [vjcyber@gmail.com] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.168.42.156 (talk) 07:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
