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Old 10-18-2002
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Why use Samba?
Hi,

I am sorry I am total dummy in Unix. I am starting to explore a thing call "Samba".

From my initial and rough finding, I think Samba is only useful in providing Print services to PC platform users.

That is to say, The Unix machine which has Samba installed, is able to provide print services to the PC users that connect to the unix machine.

Other than that, there are not so much pratical advantages of installing Samba.

Oh, I might be wrong. Please enlighten me if you have any comment. Or please point me the URL about services provided by Samba.

Thank you.
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Sure. http://www.samba.org, or #samba in Freenode.

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you could also use it as a PDC... which is what i'm trying to do with no luck.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tu...mba/index.html
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I use samba to share my FreeBSD filesystems to Win32 machines. That means I can copy files to my Unix machine and vice versa without any problems. I can found a Win32 share from my FreeBSD machine as if it was a NFS or local filesystem. Very handy, indeed!
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