Samba Features

Samba allows file and print sharing between computers running Windows and computers running UNIX. It is an implementation of dozens of services and a dozen protocols, including:

SMB: (Server Message Block):

Protocol to share disk and printer developed by Microsoft and Intel using NetBIOS on TCP/IP. Linux can mount a Samba share using the cifs or smbfs file system

CIFS(Common Internet File System)(An enhanced version of SMB): 

extended version of SMB file sharing for Internet, Internet Standard File Protocol to support Windows and UNIX system

SMB/CIFS services in Microsoft:

CIFS, Common Internet File System (formerly SMB) is the file sharing protocol used by Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP operating systems to share files and printers across the network. Similar to CIFS, NFS (Network File System) is the file sharing protocol which is used in UNIX based platforms to share files across the network.

Note: Samba 2.0 on Linux against Windows NT4.

Some options in. Conf file

public - share can be accessed by guest

browsable - share is visible in browse lists

writable - resource is read and write enabled

printable - resource is a printer, not a disk

group - all connections to the share use the specified group as their primary group