Samba is an implementation of the smb/cifs protocol for unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file sharing with microsoft windows, os x, and other unix systems. samba can also function as a domain controller or member server in both nt4-style and active directory domains.

this package contains the idl (interface description language) compiler pidl, which takes in idl files and can output c code for various uses. it is primarily of interest to developers.