samba - Mar 2002 - What are these programs?

I've seen many different samba related pieces of software named through this
newsgroup and I'm afraid I don't understand the different between them
all.
Could someone clarify these for me?

Samba - I pretty much understand this... but if You want to explain it in
terms of the other pieces of software, go ahead

HEAD

SAMBA TNG

Slackware

Winbind - I also think I understand this.

If there are any more pieces of related software I'm not mentioning, please
include them for future reference.

Thanks,
-Dan


Daniel J. Thomas
Systems Administrator
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD

Balt:    (443) 778-7924
Wash:  (240) 228-7924


"Always avoid a bad file copy...
You can never know when your replication proceeds you."
                               -Anonymous Author

Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
>Samba - I pretty much understand this... but if You want to explain it in
>terms of the other pieces of software, go ahead
>
Samba is a collection of many programs that, as a whole, provide the 
functionality
to communicate with SMB (i.e. Windows) clients via file & printer sharing.
>HEAD
>
The development version of Samba.  It has all the latest and greatest 
goodies, but
it's not tested enough yet to be a good choice if you need reliable 
software.
>SAMBA TNG
>
Hmm ... I don't really know this one.
>Slackware
>
A distribution (version) of Linux.  For more details, see the Slackware 
web site.
>Winbind - I also think I understand this.
>
Part of the Samba collection.  Winbind allows UNIX machines that implement
pam and nsswitch to use an NT domain controller for their security 
instead of
the traditional UNIX password files.

>If there are any more pieces of related software I'm not mentioning,
please
>include them for future reference.
>
Sure, there's FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, the infinite distributions of 
Linux and
a host of other little SMB projects out there.

Okay, here goes...

HEAD - the most current version of Samba, currently 3.0 in beta.

TNG - a branch of samba that split because of politics mainly (see my .sig) 
more info at http://www.samba-tng.org/

Slackware - a distribution of Linux, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE or 
Debian are.

Winbind - part of samba - it links samba servers and NT PDCs together, 
allowing smoother integration between Samba servers and M$ ones.

just in case :

nmbd - part of samba, name resolution - similar job to DNS.
smbd - part of samba, actually does the hard work of sharing.


P.S. Oh, and it's not a newsgroup - politics again, but some people would 
be offended by it being called one.

Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
 >I've seen many different samba related pieces of software named through
this
 >newsgroup and I'm afraid I don't understand the different between
them all.
 >Could someone clarify these for me?


--------------
Martyn Ranyard

I am not a member of the samba team,
and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.