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Samba software

Samba (http://www.samba.org/) is a free software implementation of Microsoft's networking protocol (variously called NetBIOS, LanManager, Server Message Block, etc). Samba runs on most systems that follow the UNIX specification, such as GNU/Linux, the Solaris operating environment, and the BSD variants.

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Additional Resources

Samba web site (http://www.samba.org/)
10 years of Samba! (http://www.samba.org/samba/10years)

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