SMB is the Microsoft protocol that is delivered with Windows operating
systems for sharing files and printers. CIFS is an open, cross-platform protocol that is based on
SMB. Samba contains free implementations of SMB and CIFS.
In Windows file and printer sharing, SMB is sometimes referred to as CIFS (Common
Internet File System), which is an Internet standard network file system definition based
on SMB, or NetBIOS, which was the original SMB communication protocol.
The Samba software package contains a variety of daemon processes, administrative tools, user tools,
and configuration files. To do basic Samba configuration, start with the Samba Server Configuration
window, which provides a graphical interface for configuring the server and setting directories
to share.
Most of the Samba configuration you do ends up in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. If you need
to access features that are not available through the Samba Server Configuration window, you can
edit /etc/samba/smb.conf by hand or use SWAT, a Web-based interface, to configure Samba.
Daemon processes consist of smbd (the SMB daemon) and nmbd (the NetBIOS name server). The
smbd daemon makes the file-sharing and printing services you add to your Linux system available
to Windows client computers.
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