What is exactly Samba ?

[amiware]

Hello folks,

sorry for my ignorance but I wanted to know what is Samba.

is it an internet stack or what?

Many Thanks

[Thomas]

Samba is the Unix implementation of the SMB protocol. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

Bye,
Thomas

[amiware]

@Thomas,

Wikipedia says that SAMBA is to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports etc.

But what I wonder is : can I make an internet connection

using SAMBA like we do with Genesis or Miami?



Thanks

[Nlandas]

Simply put it's a Linux implementation of Microsoft File and Printer sharing. It's been ported to other platforms both from the server side and client side.

-Nyle

[persia]

Basically my MS Windows customers access files on our (Leopard) servers via SMB.

[Zac67]

SMB or Samba sits on top of your layer 3 stack (IPv4, IPv6, NetBEUI or IPX). For internet access you need IPv4.

[Piru]

But what I wonder is : can I make an internet connection using SAMBA like we do with Genesis or Miami?

No

[Matt_H]

Samba is a network application that *requires* AmiTCP or Miami in the same way as a webbrowser. It doesn't replace them.