Unigroup's November '99 Meeting Announcement

Topic:

Cross-Platform Connectivity: SAMBA

Speaker:

Ed Weinberg,

Detel, Inc., Linux Guy

Date:

Thursday, November 18, 1999

Location:

The Chase Manhattan Bank (formerly Chemical Bank)

55 Water Street, South Tower

13th Floor Conference Room C

Time:

6:15 - 6:30 PM Registration

6:30 - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard - Questions, Answers and Current Events

6:40 - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business

6:50 - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Introduction:

If you just don't ever feel like touching an NT server, or if you think your NT file server is somewhat unreliable, you can replace much of the functionality of that server with Samba running on your favorite Unix machine. Using SAMBA, your Unix machine can act as both a client and a server for what is typically called Microsoft Networking.

SAMBA is a free SMB and CIFS client and server for Unix and other operating systems. It can be run on just about any Unix variant. It is an "open" standard and defined in IETF RFC1001 and RFC1002.

Samba was originally developed by IBM and called "Lan Manager"; was "Adopted" and "extended" by Microsoft; contains clients to allow your Unix machine to browse shares on other WinX machines on the network; allows your Unix machine be part of a Peer-to-peer network, Workgroup, or NT Domain; and allows your Unix machine to be a PDC.

Commercial products exist which perform similar functions as Samba. Some are:

• SCO VisionFS provides an SMB Server and Client and currently ships with SCO's OpenServer 5.0.5 and UnixWare 7.1 products and is automatically licensed for the same number of users as the Unix box is.
• SCO AFPS - Advanced File and Print Server provides true Windows NT 3.51 functonality. SCO recommends this add-on product if you have other NT machines on the network.
• Syntax TotalNet is supposedly bundled with Solaris and AIX.
• Network Appliance Filer Product.
• AT&T Advanced Server for Unix (ASU). Supposedly, SCO's AFPS was derived from ASU a number of years ago.
• FacetCorp's FacetWin has been reported on the SCO Newsgroups as a solid CIFS/SMB product.

Description of Talk:

Tentative (stay tuned for updates):

Our speaker will discuss the following:

• Samba Overview
• File & Printer Sharing
• Connectivity with Non-Unix machines
• Configuring Samba
• Live Demonstrations

Check out Ed Weinberg's Samba Page (http://linuxguy.net/samba.htm) for more info about Samba.

Speaker Biography:

Ed Weinberg gave a talk on "How to Configure Samba" at one of NYC's Linux Groups a few months ago. See his LinuxGuy Page for details.

Company Biography:

Detel, Inc. offers services such as Web Page Hosting, Secure Credit Card Orders, Custom CGI Programming and Animation.

Complimentary Refreshments will be served.

Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!

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