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-ServerMessageBlock ([SMB]) is a client/server protocol similar to remote procedure calls ([RPC]), but specialised for file system access. It is the native method of file and print sharing for [Microsoft]'s operating systems, where it is called [Microsoft] Networking. [Windows] for Workgroups, [Windows] 95, and [Windows
] NT
all include [SMB] clients and servers.
+ServerMessageBlock ([SMB]) is a client/server protocol similar to remote procedure calls ([RPC]), but specialised for file system access. It is the native method of file and print sharing for [Microsoft]'s operating systems, where it is called [Microsoft] Networking. [Windows] for Workgroups, [Windows] 95, and [WindowsNT
] all include [SMB] clients and servers.
-But [SMB] is also used by [OS/2], Lan Manager and Banyan Vines, and there are [SMB] servers and clients for Unix, for example [Samba] and smbclient(1). The protocol was developed by [Intel], [Microsoft], and [IBM] in the early 1980s. It has also had input from Xerox and 3Com.
+But [SMB] is also used by [OS/2], Lan Manager and Banyan Vines, and there are [SMB] servers and clients for Unix, for example [Samba] and smbclient(1). The protocol was developed by [Intel], [Microsoft], and [IBM] in the early 1980s. It has also had input from [
Xerox]
and [
3Com]
.
[SMB] originally ran on top of the lower level protocols NetBEUI and NetBIOS, but now typically runs over [TCP/IP].
While it is mainly used for file and printer sharing between computers, it has provisions for much more. [SMB] is a presentation layer protocol structured as a large set of commands (Server Message Blocks). Clients and servers may implement different versions ("dialects") of the protocol, and will negotiate the version to use before starting a session. There are commands to support sharing of files, printers, serial ports, for user authentication, resource browsing, communications abstractions such as named pipes and mail slots, and other miscellaneous functions. A redirector packages [SMB] requests into a network control block (NBC) structure that can be sent across the network to a remote device.
