Linux Samba
“So What Samba is all about? In brief SMB or SERVER MESSAGE BLOCK is a PROTOCOL that is used between a MICROSOFT CLIENT and MICROSOFT SERVER When the CLIENT requires access to SHARED RESOURCES on the SERVER it sends an SMB REQUEST and the SERVER responds with an SMB ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Linux operating systems do not support SMB by default, therefore a compatibly system called Samba was created to allow shares between the two systems. The commercialization of the INTERNET over the past few years has created something of a modern melting pot. It has brought business-folk and technologists closer together than was previously thought possible. As a side effect, WINDOWS and UNIX systems have been invading each other’s turf, and people expect that they will not only play together nicely, but that they will share. A lot of emphasis has been placed on peaceful coexistence between UNIX and WINDOWS. Unfortunately, the two systems come from very different cultures and they have difficulty getting along without mediation. ...and that, of course, is Samba's job. Samba runs on UNIX platforms, but speaks to WINDOWS Clients like a native. It allows a UNIX system to move into a WINDOWS "NETWORK NEIGHBORHOOD" without causing a stir. WINDOWS USERS can happily access FILE and PRINT services without knowing or caring that those services are being offered by a UNIX host. All of this is managed through a PROTOCOL suite which is currently known as the "Common Internet File System", or CIFS. This name was introduced by MICROSOFT, and provides some insight into their hopes for the future. At the heart of CIFS is the latest incarnation of the Server Message Block (SMB) PROTOCOL, which has a long and tedious history. Samba is an OPEN SOURCE CIFS implementation, and is available for free from the http://samba.org/ mirror sites.” Indeed Samba is so versatile, almost any device supporting a version of UNIX is compatible, which also includes MOBILE PHONES, TABLETS, and LAPTOPS etc. In this TASK the WINDOWS 10 CLIENT is used in some parts to setup the Linux Server using Webmin. One problem here is that the Linux Sever requires an access to the INTERNET to install Samba and at present the Linux Server is using an INTERNAL NETWORK. A solution to this would be to change the configuration of the NETWORK ADAPTER to NAT in VirtualBox thus allowing access to the INTERNET, install the required files, then changing the configuration once again back to INTERNAL NETWORK. However we shall take this opportunity to demonstrate that COMPUTERS can access different NETWORKS even on different ADDRESSING SYSTEMS
“So What Samba is all about? In brief SMB or SERVER MESSAGE BLOCK is a PROTOCOL that is used between a MICROSOFT CLIENT and MICROSOFT SERVER When the CLIENT requires access to SHARED RESOURCES on the SERVER it sends an SMB REQUEST and the SERVER responds with an SMB ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Linux operating systems do not support SMB by default, therefore a compatibly system called Samba was created to allow shares between the two systems. The commercialization of the INTERNET over the past few years has created something of a modern melting pot. It has brought business-folk and technologists closer together than was previously thought possible. As a side effect, WINDOWS and UNIX systems have been invading each other’s turf, and people expect that they will not only play together nicely, but that they will share. A lot of emphasis has been placed on peaceful coexistence between UNIX and WINDOWS. Unfortunately, the two systems come from very different cultures and they have difficulty getting along without mediation. ...and that, of course, is Samba's job. Samba runs on UNIX platforms, but speaks to WINDOWS Clients like a native. It allows a UNIX system to move into a WINDOWS "NETWORK NEIGHBORHOOD" without causing a stir. WINDOWS USERS can happily access FILE and PRINT services without knowing or caring that those services are being offered by a UNIX host. All of this is managed through a PROTOCOL suite which is currently known as the "Common Internet File System", or CIFS. This name was introduced by MICROSOFT, and provides some insight into their hopes for the future. At the heart of CIFS is the latest incarnation of the Server Message Block (SMB) PROTOCOL, which has a long and tedious history. Samba is an OPEN SOURCE CIFS implementation, and is available for free from the http://samba.org/ mirror sites.” Indeed Samba is so versatile, almost any device supporting a version of UNIX is compatible, which also includes MOBILE PHONES, TABLETS, and LAPTOPS etc. In this TASK the WINDOWS 10 CLIENT is used in some parts to setup the Linux Server using Webmin. One problem here is that the Linux Sever requires an access to the INTERNET to install Samba and at present the Linux Server is using an INTERNAL NETWORK. A solution to this would be to change the configuration of the NETWORK ADAPTER to NAT in VirtualBox thus allowing access to the INTERNET, install the required files, then changing the configuration once again back to INTERNAL NETWORK. However we shall take this opportunity to demonstrate that COMPUTERS can access different NETWORKS even on different ADDRESSING SYSTEMS