Samba Resources
W hat is SAMBA you may be asking your self? Perhaps you got here by mistake looking for dances lessons?SAMBA is a suite of programs available under the GNU Public License for allowing computers running some variant of UNIX to serve files and printers to Windows clients using the native support built into the PC operating systems. For the those of us who claim the title "techie geek", the resource sharing protocol that SAMBA implements is CIFS (Common Internet File System) formally known as SMB (Server Message Block).
Here are some links to information on CIFS
- Microsoft's CIFS Page MS's main CIFS page
- CIFS specifications (older specs as well) FTP site at Microsoft
- NT Domains for Unix (Luke Leighton) Information on the current project to implement PDC support in Samba for Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 clients.
- www.cifs.com SCO's CIFS resource center
I've been a member of the SAMBA team since Fall of 1998. Currently, I am working for VA Linux Systems where I work on Samba full time along with other Open Source projects.
I've also recently authored (April '99) a book with Richard Sharpe entitled Sams Teach Yourself SAMBA in 24 Hours. It's available directly from
- MacMillan Publishing
- Amazon.com
- FatBrain.com
- Bookstores such as Books-a-Million and Barnes and Noble
I've fixed a few bugs in the perl scripts that accompany chapter 12. These scripts are to help easy the trouble of replacing a Windows NT File server with a SAMBA server in domain security mode. Of course they can also help well installing a new SAMBA server in a domain. You can download the gzipped tarball from this link.
I previously presented a paper at LISA NT 99 in Seattle. The paper described my experiences while running a SAMBA controlled Windows NT Domain. Here's the bibliographic listing and link.
- G. Carter, Administering Windows NT Domains Using a non-Windows NT PDC, Proceeding from the Usenix LISA-NT 99 conference, 1999.
Of course, this page would not be complete without a link to the main SAMBA Site itself.
For more information about the various SAMBA mailing lists, see http://lists.samba.org/
There's also a USENET newsgroup you can search: comp.protocols.smb