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 Active Directory or NT4-style domains.

This package contains the common files that are used by both the server (provided in the samba package) and the client (provided in the smbclient libsmbclient0 packages).