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by manish_rit21

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Sir,
What is the difference between Samba Server and Samba Client and through both can we View the files of Windows Client. What I will have to the changes in Windows client so that he can view my Linux Machine in His network Neighbourwood and if it will be shown what will it show if have login as a root. Please reply soon.
Regards,
Manish.

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by mbavale

Hi Manish,
Samba (Server) provides
* File & print services
* Authentication and Authorization
* Name resolution
* Service announcement (browsing)

and smbclient is a client to access SMB/CIFS shares on the network. usually you dont' needto make any changes to windows clients. But you will have to run samba server on the Linux system from which you would like to share resource to windows clients. For more detail on use of SAMBA please look into SAMBA-HOWTO or visit the link http://samba.epfl.ch/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
This will help you out.

Regards,
Mahadev T.

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