Samba

Samba is the CIFS server that runs on Linux. From the Samba Web page comes the following quote:

Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

The latest sources and some binaries can be retrieved from the Samba URL.

With the magic of dual-booting systems, our winlin will be transformed into a Linux machine called linwin. From linwin we will mount our friend \\winlin2\g, and from winlin2 we will mount the home directory of egb on linwin.

To use the SMB file services of a Windows machine, the Linux kernel has the SMB file system support built in. The way to determine if the currently running Linux has such built-in ...

Get Linux® and Windows® Interoperability Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.