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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]: SambaA 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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