Sunday, October 14, 2012

MC2 Post 1415 It's Time To SAMBA on Windows 7 Desktop and Nexus 7 Tablets




From:  http://www.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html


 

What is Samba?

As the front page at samba.org says, "Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

 

Samba-3 by Example explains further, saying:

     

Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, UNIX, Linux, IBM System 390, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server. When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.

From The Official Samba HOWTO:

    The goal behind the project is one of removing barriers to interoperability.

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Basically that means it allows me to stream  the terabyte of Media on my network to my 16GB Asus Nexus Tablet.

And Since I also have Netflix, that too streams directly to my Nexus wirelessly  over FiOS.

Cool.

Now that's what I Call "Dancing..."


Wingman.

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