[Samba] What are these programs?

[Martyn Ranyard]

Okay, here goes...

HEAD - the most current version of Samba, currently 3.0 in beta.

TNG - a branch of samba that split because of politics mainly (see my .sig) 
more info at http://www.samba-tng.org/

Slackware - a distribution of Linux, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE or 
Debian are.

Winbind - part of samba - it links samba servers and NT PDCs together, 
allowing smoother integration between Samba servers and M$ ones.

just in case :

nmbd - part of samba, name resolution - similar job to DNS.
smbd - part of samba, actually does the hard work of sharing.


P.S. Oh, and it's not a newsgroup - politics again, but some people would 
be offended by it being called one.

Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
 >I've seen many different samba related pieces of software named through this
 >newsgroup and I'm afraid I don't understand the different between them all.
 >Could someone clarify these for me?


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Martyn Ranyard

I am not a member of the samba team,
and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.