[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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