New version of the server for sharing files on Windows under Linux. Changes to previous version, you can see here. SMB (Server Message Block) is part of the NetBEUI protocol developed by Microsoft and IBM that enables communication between printers and Discs Windows systems.

In Unix (Linux) this functionality is called SAMBA and allows a server ( "Host") Unix can access resources on Windows platforms (95,98, NT, 2000), as where a platform (Windows) access resources on "Hosts" Unix. Server ( "Host") for accessing resources on Unix Platform Windows

The first problem accessing files on a Windows platform is the format or file system (File System) in which they are based. Windows currently uses three types: The classical FAT file system, VFAT that came with Windows 95, Windows NT and NTFS Windows 2000 JFS. While you can use other Unix 20 different, the most common are ext2 and NFS for Linux developed by Sun.

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