Archive:Samba

Note: The term "samba" is often used interchangeably with "SMB" (aka, Windows File Sharing). You may be looking for that page instead.

Samba the Linux and Unix implementation SMB/CIFS (aka, Windows File Sharing). If it is not included in a given OS distro, it can be installed easily to share files to XBMC (among other uses). Samba/SMB is often a good choice due to it being highly compatible with other computers, regardless of the OS.

• http://www.samba.org

Mac OS X

Mac OS X from v10.5 and below also came with Samba for SMB file sharing, but later switched to a different implementation of SMB for v10.6. This change can cause issues for sharing files from Mac OS computers to XBMC, but can be fixed by using SMBUp, which reinstalls Samba and disables Apple's SMB server.

See also

• SMB
• File sharing