Samba v3.5.8 releases free software to implement SMB protocol

Samba is a freeware software that implements the SMB protocol on Linux and UNIX systems, consisting of servers and client programs. Samba is a tool suite that implements the SMB (Server message Block) protocol, or the Netbios/lanmanager protocol, on UNIX.

The SMB protocol is typically used by the Windows family to implement disk and printer sharing. It should be noted that NetBIOS is based on Ethernet broadcast mechanism, no transparent network bridge can not cross the network segment, perhaps with WINS and Lmhosts, but I did not try. I feel that samba is implementing SMB binding to Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29912.html ">TCP/IP, and samba broadcasts only in IP subnets (many times I have to specify an IP address:- ()。 So in Win95 with samba communication is not only to install NetBEUI protocol, but also to install TCP/IP protocol.

Main parts of Samba:

Two daemons: SMBD and NMBD (providing NetBIOS name services to clients)
　　
Configuration file:/etc/smb.conf

Using tools: Smbclient,smbstatus,smbmount,smbumount,smbprint,smbprint.sysv,smbrun
　　
Samba startup script in/ETC/RC.D/INIT.D/SMB
　　
BTW, do not confuse SMB with SMP (symmetric multiprocessor), let alone the NetBIOS name in DNS host name confused! Samba defaults to setting the hostname to a NetBIOS name, which typically exceeds the length limit of the NetBIOS name (16 characters).

Samba 3.5.8 Update log:

o Fix winbind crash bug when no DC is available (bug #7730).
o Fix finding users on the domain members (bug #7743).
o Fix memory leaks in Winbind (bug #7879).
o Fix Printing with Windows 7 clients (bug #7567).

Download Address: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.5.8.tar.gz