New version of the server for sharing files on Windows under Linux. Changes to previous version, you can see here. The Samba 3.3.6 is a server software for Linux (and other Unix-based systems) that allows you to manage and share network resources with Windows computers. It is thus possible to use Linux as a file server, print server, among others, as if the network uses Windows servers (NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003). This article gives an introduction to Samba shows its main characteristics and some of its history.

A Short History of Samba
Samba 3.3.6 is a creation of Andrew Tridgell. According to information provided on the official website of the software, Tridgell needed to mount a disk space on your computer to a Unix server. The computer running the DOS operating system, was initially used by the file system NFS (Network File System) for access. However, an application needed to support the NetBIOS protocol (not supported by the NFS). The solution found for Tridgell was: wrote a sniffer (a small program to capture data traffic on the network) to analyze the data traffic generated by the NetBIOS protocol, made from reverse engineering the protocol SMB (Server Message Block) and as implemented in Unix. That made the Unix server appear as a file server on your Windows PC with DOS.

This code was made available publicly for Tridgell in 1992. However, after the project was shelved until a certain day Tridgell decided to connect his wife's computer to your computer with Linux. However, found no better way to do that to your code and then used it.

Through contacts made by e-mail, Tridgell found that the documentation of the NetBIOS and SMB protocols had been updated and re-dedicate to the project. A company came in contact with him requesting the rights to the name used in the software until then. Later, Andrew Tridgell had the idea to look in a dictionary a word that had the letters s, myb (SMB) and found the word "samba". From there the project grew and now Samba Andrew Tridgell has an excellent team of programmers and thousands of users of your solution-irrigated throughout the world.

What makes the Samba server
With the Samba server, you can share files, share printers and control access to specific network resources with equal or greater efficiency than servers based on Microsoft operating systems. But in this case, the operating system is Linux.

The Samba 3.3.6 is compatible with virtually any version of Windows, including NT 4.0, 9x, Me, 2000, XP and Server 2003 as well as machines with Linux, of course.

All work done by Samba 3.3.6 is high security, there is great precision in the controls of the resources offered. So much so that there are companies that use Samba as a solution to conflicts between different versions of Windows.

As could not fail to be also allows Samba 3.3.6 configuration is done by remote computers. For the most critical cases, the network administrator can even be notified of abnormalities by e-mail (this is necessary to use a specific script that collects information from log files and creates a file that can be sent via e-mail ).

In addition to other more advanced settings such as PDC (Primary Domain Control).

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