Samba

Samba is a set of applications that's freely available on the Internet. Samba enables you to set up Unix servers that can act as file servers for Microsoft clients that use the older SMB (server message block) protocol.

Chapter 35 covers the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol along with Samba.

Using Samba, you can make resources running on high-performance Unix/Linux servers available to Microsoft clients on the same network. The reverse is also true. You can offer file shares to Windows clients when those files (or printer) shares exist on Unix/Linux systems.

You can obtain Samba, as well as documentation for Samba, from www.samba.org.