samba

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samba - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  samba
      n 1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves
           and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and
           one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
           [syn: obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon
           ]
      2: music composed for dancing the samba
      3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
      4: a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
      v 1: dance the samba

samba - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Samba
  smbclient
  smblib
  
     <networking> A free suite of programs which implement the
     Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
  
     Originally developed for Unix by Andrew Tridgell at the
     Australian National University, the Samba server allows
     files and printers on the host operating system to be
     shared with clients such as Windows for Workgroups, DOS,
     OS/2, Windows NT and others.
  
     For example, instead of using telnet to log in to a Unix
     machine to edit a file there, a Windows 95 user might
     connect a drive in the Windows Explorer to a Samba server on
     the Unix machine and edit the file in a Windows editor.
  
     A Unix client called smbclient, built from the same source code
     , allows ftp-like access to SMB resources.
  
     Samba is available for many Unix variants, OS/2, and VMS.
     Porting to Novell Netware is in progress (August 1996).
  
     smblib is a portable generic library for making SMB calls
     for implementing client/server functions from within any
     program.  Linux implements a complete file system (based on
     smbclient) so by default Linux users have full access to
     resources on LAN Server, Windows NT and LAN Manager
     networks.
  
     (http://samba.org/samba/samba.html).
  
     (1998-11-22)