Samba (software)
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Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell. Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients[5] and can integrate with a Microsoft Windows Server domain, either as a Domain Controller (DC) or as a domain member. As of version 4, it supports Active Directory and Microsoft Windows NT domains.
Initial release | 1992; 32 years ago (1992)[1] |
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Written in | C, Python |
Operating system | Multiplatform |
Type | Network file system |
License | 2008: GPL-3.0-or-later[lower-alpha 1] 1993: GPL-2.0-or-later[lower-alpha 2] 1992: Proprietary[lower-alpha 3] |
Website | www |
Samba runs on most Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Solaris, AIX and the BSD variants, including Apple macOS (Mac OS X 10.2 and greater) and macOS Server. Samba also runs on a number of other operating systems such as OpenVMS and IBM i. Samba is standard on nearly all distributions of Linux and is commonly included as a basic system service on other Unix-based operating systems as well. Samba is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The name Samba comes from SMB (Server Message Block), the name of the proprietary protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system.