Introduction to Samba
Samba is an open-source, volunteer project originally begun by Andrew Tridgell and now developed collaboratively by the general UNIX community. It provides a UNIX machine (such as FreeBSD) with the capability to do everything that Windows file sharing can do, including appearing in network browsing lists, securing connections based on NT domain and username logons, and providing network print services. There are also tools that provide many of the administrative functions that a Windows NT/2000 server has. With the addition of the smbfs port, which we will examine later in this chapter (allowing FreeBSD to operate as a Windows file-sharing client), we have a complete suite of software that allows us to use a FreeBSD machine ...
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