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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 418 Linux Samba Server Overview Enterprises often handle many kinds of different operating systems and have the needs to keep them in a networked environment for files sharing and printers. Employee works on workstation like Linux, Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, OS/2 or Novel and needs to access server in their daily works. A linux server with Samba support can be used for these activities. Samba is a strong network service for files sharing and printers that work on the majority of operating system available these days. When well implemented by the administrator, it’s fasted and most secures then the native files sharing service available on Microsoft Windows machines. As explained in the README file of Samba: Samba is the protocol by which a lot of PC-related machines share files and printers and other information such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that support this natively include Windows 95/98/NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows, VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well.  Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, AppleTalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines by default. Samba software include a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others, a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) name server, which amongst other things gives browsing support, a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems, and finally a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs. These installation instructions assume  Commands are Unix-compatible. The source path is “/var/tmp”  (other paths are possible). Installations were tested on RedHat Linux 6.1. All steps in the installation will happen in superuser account “root”. Samba version number is 2.0.6