An Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to Microsoft Windows clients.
These services may be hosted off any TCP/IP-enabled platform. The original deployment platforms were UNIX and Linux, although today it is in common use across a broad variety of systems.
The Samba project includes not only an impressive feature set in file and print serving capabilities, but has been extended to include client functionality, utilities to ease migration to Samba, tools to aid interoperability with Microsoft Windows, and administration tools.