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VPN Samba support
Hi all,
I'm setting up VPN support using an Asus N66U router.
One of the fields is "Network Place (Samba) Support".
In layman's terms, what is "Samba"? Is it a file system that Linux and Mac OS's use? If i enable this, what real world implications would it have? Does it mean that Macs and Linux computers can log in? Or does it mean that Macs and Linux computers can both log in and peruse our files?
Thanks in advance.
I'm setting up VPN support using an Asus N66U router.
One of the fields is "Network Place (Samba) Support".
In layman's terms, what is "Samba"? Is it a file system that Linux and Mac OS's use? If i enable this, what real world implications would it have? Does it mean that Macs and Linux computers can log in? Or does it mean that Macs and Linux computers can both log in and peruse our files?
Thanks in advance.
Samba is an open source version of SMB, also called cifs, or in other words, file sharing.
I am familiar with SAMBA for Unix, particularly for Solaris and its a great feature that you enable in the Unix side to allow sharing of UFS with say Windows systems, so they can access and write to it. It must be configured and enabled first.
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Thank you. So it sounds like basically, if I enable this feature, it allows non-Windows VPN clients to log in and cruise our Windows network folders and files?
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Thank you all.