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samba

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  samba 
  n  1:  large  west  African  tree  having  large  palmately  lobed  leaves 
  and  axillary  cymose  panicles  of  small  white  flowers  and 
  one-winged  seeds;  yields  soft  white  to  pale  yellow  wood 
  [syn:  {obeche},  {obechi},  {arere},  {Triplochiton 
  scleroxcylon}] 
  2:  music  composed  for  dancing  the  samba 
  3:  a  lively  ballroom  dance  from  Brazil 
  4:  a  form  of  canasta  using  three  decks  and  six  jokers 
  v  :  dance  the  samba 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Samba 
 
    A  free  suite  of  programs  which  implement  the 
  {Server  Message  Block}  (SMB)  protocol. 
 
  Originally  developed  for  {Unix}  by  Andrew  Tridgell  at  the 
  {Australian  National  University},  the  Samba  {server}  allows 
  files  and  printers  on  the  {host}  {operating  system}  to  be 
  shared  with  {clients}  such  as  {Windows  for  Workgroups},  {DOS}, 
  {OS/2},  {Windows  NT}  and  others 
 
  For  example,  instead  of  using  {telnet}  to  log  in  to  a  Unix 
  machine  to  edit  a  file  there  a  {Windows  95}  user  might 
  connect  a  drive  in  the  Windows  {Explorer}  to  a  Samba  server  on 
  the  Unix  machine  and  edit  the  file  in  a  Windows  editor. 
 
  A  Unix  client  called  smbclient,  built  from  the  same  {source 
  code},  allows  {ftp}-like  access  to  SMB  resources. 
 
  Samba  is  available  for  many  Unix  variants,  OS/2,  and  {VMS}. 
  Porting  to  {Novell  Netware}  is  in  progress  (August  1996). 
 
  smblib  is  a  {portable}  generic  library  for  making  SMB  calls 
  for  implementing  {client/server}  functions  from  within  any 
  program.  {Linux}  implements  a  complete  file  system  (based  on 
  smbclient)  so  by  default  Linux  users  have  full  access  to 
  resources  on  {LAN  Server},  Windows  NT  and  {LAN  Manager} 
  networks. 
 
  {Home  (http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html)}. 
 
  (1998-11-22)




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