What is Samba?

[Stuart Abramson_2]

Could someone please tell me what "Samba" is? What do you use it for? Why would you pick Samba rather some other product? What other products could you use instead of Samba?

I believe that is a software product that runs on multiple platforms, but that one can buy it from HP for installation on HP-UX servers.

What does it do? I think it has something to do with communicating with PCs.. Like PC-NFS or something like that?

Stuart

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Samba is used for sharing files between UNIX and Windows platform. It is used in HP CIFS software and it is free.

Hai

[Keely Jackson]

Hi Stuart

Samba is a piece of software that allows files to be shared between unix and Windows. We use it for exactly that purpose.

Good reasons for using it are that it works and most importantly, it is free.

Other prodcuts include DiskAccess but you have to buy that.

Take a look at http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/samba.html

or go to www.samba.org and choose your nearest site.

Cheers
Keely

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

take a look at next pages,

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8724AA

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Jairo Campana]

samba_setup - a utility to assist in configuring SAMBA after the installation
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation
download http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/samba-2.2.3a/

you found after to install the script assist in configurating SAMBA in /opt/samba/script/

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

a quick search on http://docs.hp.com/ will return loads of docs too!

[Stuart Abramson_2]

THank you!

So, Should I download Samba from the GNU or Wisconsin site, or should I install the free HP product, CIFS?

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Go for CIFS...a HP product.

[Umapathy S]

Installing the HP product CIFS is recommended since it would have been built and throughly tested on HPUX platforms by HP.

HTH
Umapathy

[Darren Prior]

Hi Stuart,

If you want a version of Samba that is supported by HP, then CIFS/9000 is available from http://software.hp.com and is free (A.01.09.04). The HP version will generally be behind the open source Samba in terms of the version number.

On the other hand if you're not worried about HP support (ie you want to use this forum, or the samba.org forums for support), and want the absolute latest version or want to compile it yourself then open source Samba is available from http://www.samba.org

The end decision is yours, I hope this helps ;)

regards,

Darren

[Darren Prior]

sorry - forgot to add that the O'Reilly book "Using Samba" is a great resource for reading up on Samba and learning about its' functionality.

regards,

Darren.

[John Meissner]

Samba is a file sharing utility used with Unix/Linux to allow file sharing between Unix/windows/and other Unix/Linux machines.

I use samba on my linux box at home to share files with other PC's on my network. I'm sure there are several other products out there to accomplish this but Samba seems to be the most common and is included with most Linux distributions. In the past I have had difficutly configuring it because the tools to do so at the time were not very intuitive. Now many of the tools for setting up Samba are very easy to use.

More information about Samba can be found at:
http://www.samba.org

[Bruce Troutman]

Install the the free CIFS 9000 software so that you can call HP for support during installation and if you ever have any issues.

I've attempted to install the latest version from samba.org and also HP's CIFS and found the CIFS to be much easier.

Good Luck!