The Samba package supports the following client computers:
Windows 9x
Windows NT
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows for Workgroups
MS Client 3.0 for DOS
OS/2
Dave for Macintosh computers
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Running Servers Part V
Mac OS X
Samba for Linux
Mac OS X Server ships with Samba, so you can use a Macintosh system as a server. This
chapter, however, discusses using a Linux system as a server. You can then have Macintosh,
Windows, or Linux client computers. In addition, Mac OS X ships with both client and server software
for Samba.
As for administrative tools for Samba, you have several shell commands at your disposal: testparm
and testprns, with which you can check your configuration files; smbstatus, which tells you
what computers are currently connected to your shared resources; and the nmblookup command,
with which you can query computers.
Samba uses the NetBIOS service to share resources with SMB clients, but the underlying network
must be configured for TCP/IP. Although other SMB hosts can use TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and IPX/SPX
to transport data, Samba for Linux supports only TCP/IP. Messages are carried between host computers
with TCP/IP and are then handled by NetBIOS.
Getting and Installing Samba
You can get Samba software in different ways, depending on your Linux distribution.
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