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.

these packages contain snapshot versions of samba 4, the next-generation version of samba.

this package contains some client components of the samba suite. in particular it includes the command line utilities smbclient, net, and some acl tools.