Samba

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {Triplochiton
            scleroxcylon}]


       2: music composed for dancing the samba
       3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
       4: a form of canasta using three decks and six jokers
       v : dance the samba

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Samba
       
           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.
       
          {Home (http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html)}.
       
          (1998-11-22)