Quick Overview
- Samba consists of two user mode daemons.
- nmbd - NetBIOS naming daemon. Not covered further in this talk.
- smbd - Main file and print serving code.
- smbd has evolved over seven years of coding.
- Originally a file server, it has expanded to include print services, authentication services and now an implementation of an entire RPC protocol.
- smbd is too complex. Much work is being done to simplify it and break it into manageable parts.
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