| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Smbfs is a filesystem that implements the SMB protocol, which is the |
| 2 | protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT. |
| 3 | Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell |
| 4 | that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients. |
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| 6 | Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For |
| 7 | more info on samba, including documentation, please go to |
| 8 | http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror. |