Samba is an open source/free software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

[[describe what a SMB and CIFS client is]]

This is software that makes use of tcp/ip to allow the host to interact wtih a Windows client or server.

http://www.samba.org/

Tcl developers may find that Samba provides them a way to access and process Windows files while still running code on machines running Unix/Linux/Other operating systems.


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