samba

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}, {samba}, {Triplochiton
         scleroxcylon}]
    2: music composed for dancing the samba
    3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
    4: a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
    v 1: dance the samba
    

Samba
smbclient
smblib

   <networking> A 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.

   (http://samba.org/samba/samba.html).

   (1998-11-22)