[Samba] What are these programs?
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Mar 12 05:48:04 GMT 2002
Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
>Samba - I pretty much understand this... but if You want to explain it in
>terms of the other pieces of software, go ahead
>
Samba is a collection of many programs that, as a whole, provide the
functionality
to communicate with SMB (i.e. Windows) clients via file & printer sharing.
>HEAD
>
The development version of Samba. It has all the latest and greatest
goodies, but
it's not tested enough yet to be a good choice if you need reliable
software.
>SAMBA TNG
>
Hmm ... I don't really know this one.
>Slackware
>
A distribution (version) of Linux. For more details, see the Slackware
web site.
>Winbind - I also think I understand this.
>
Part of the Samba collection. Winbind allows UNIX machines that implement
pam and nsswitch to use an NT domain controller for their security
instead of
the traditional UNIX password files.
>If there are any more pieces of related software I'm not mentioning, please
>include them for future reference.
>
Sure, there's FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, the infinite distributions of
Linux and
a host of other little SMB projects out there.
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