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What is Samba and when do you need it?

To make a long story short: The Samba project was started in 1992 by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is a set of tools to share files and printers with computers running Microsoft Windows. It implements the SMB network protocol , which is the heart of Windows networking. Samba can be used to: Act as a server for Windows (or Samba) clients: share folders and printers, including PDF pseudo-printers so all the computers in your network may write PDF files Act as a domain controller in a Windows network (authenticating users, etc.) Do some more complex things, such as using a Windows domain controller to authenticate the users of a Linux/UNIX machine Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. More information about Samba can be found at http://www.samba.org . Back to top What to install The samba package is a meta-package intended to be installed on servers. Clients do not need this meta-package. It is not necessary for clients to do any of the following: Access shared fol