This is the Debian Linux prepackaged version of the Samba SMB (LAN-Manager) server. Samba was written by Andrew Tridgell and many others. This package was put together by Eloy Paris based on previous work by Klee Dienes , Andrew Howell and Bruce Perens from sources found at . As of early in the samba-2.0.0alpha series, the Samba package for Debian was split into the following packages: - samba (the Samba server) - smbclient (a LAN Manager client - like the ftp program) - swat (Samba Web Administration Tool) - smbfs (smbfs userland utilities for kernels > 2.0.x) - samba-doc (Samba documentation). Copyright: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.