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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001Smbfs is a filesystem that implements the SMB protocol, which is the
2protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
3Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell
4that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients.
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6Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For
7more info on samba, including documentation, please go to
8http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror.