Short: File/printer sharing with Win* machines Author: Andrew Tridgell Uploader: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Type: comm/net Ported-by: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen This is a port to the Amiga of Samba 1.9.17p4. Samba is a set of programmes for sharing files and printers with Windows machines (3.11, 95, NT, ...), OS/2 and other machines running Samba. What can Samba do? ================== Here is a very short list of what Samba includes, and what it does: - a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others. - a Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which among other things gives browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish. - a FTP-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and printers) from Unix, Netware and other operating systems. - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs. What is new since 1.9.17alpha5? =============================== The bug that caused nmbd to occasionally flood the network with broadcast packets and use lots of CPU time has been fixed. Various other problems have been fixed. Specific to the Amiga version: Smbclient now supports WINS name resolution. The "failed to ftruncate share mode file" messages in the log files have been suppressed, but the problem hasn't been solved yet. What is new since 1.9.16p9? =========================== Lots, probably, particularly when it comes to browsing. See WHATSNEW.txt. There isn't much in the way of Amiga specific changes. Password authentication INet-225 and MultiUser should work. This time a version of smbd which loads whole files into memory when possible has been included (bin/smbd-mmap). Manual pages are also available as text files with ANSI sequences. A new FAQ is available, see the docs/faq directory. Read the file WHATSNEW.txt. Requirements ============ - Amiga OS 2.04 (2.0 might work too). - MC68000 or better. - ixemul.library 46.0 (or later). Can be found on . - ixnet.library 46.0 (or later). Comes with ixemul.library. - One of the TCP/IP protocol stacks supported by ixnet.library. This currently means AmiTCP/IP, AS-225R2 and compatibles (including Miami). - Connection to a network. Ethernet (maybe Arcnet too?) is by far the easiest to connect to, but SLIP/PLIP/PPP can be used too. Tested (and compiled) on an A4000/060+604e with an Ariadne Ethernet card, Amiga OS 3.1, Miami 2.1p-2.92e, GCC 2.7.2.1, ixemul.library 47.2 and ixnet.library 47.2 in a large network (1000+ computers).