[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
obeche obechi arere triplochiton scleroxcylon 

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

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
     
     
see also:
server message block unix australian national university server host operating system 
clients windows for workgroups dos os/2 windows nt 
telnet windows 95 explorer source code ftp 
vms novell netware portable client/server linux 
lan server lan manager lt;homegt; 

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