Sunday, April 12, 2009

Blog 10

What is Samba? Why could you or your business use it?

Samba is an application that runs as a service on Unix/Linux computers. It uses SMB (server message block) to communicate with Windows based computers or network. It is primarily used as file and print servers. Windows users don’t even know the file or the printers that they are using are on a Linux server.

NV Energy could use Samba/Linux (but they won’t) to house their network printers or they could also, use it to authenticate Active Directory logins.

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