- #SWAT 4 SERVER BROWSER ALTERNATIVE EXECUTABLE ANDROID#
- #SWAT 4 SERVER BROWSER ALTERNATIVE EXECUTABLE WINDOWS#
#SWAT 4 SERVER BROWSER ALTERNATIVE EXECUTABLE WINDOWS#
Winbind is a Unix/Linux mechanism that allows Windows NT accounts to look like a Unix service to Unix/Linux machines. It’s a bit like DNS except that the WINS Server stores Windows computer names rather than URLs or domain names. Computers in a LAN interrogate the WINS server to obtain the IP addresses of other computers. WINS is a mechanism for storing Windows computer name to IP address mappings on a central server – the WINS Server. Kerberos is a separate encrypted authentication mechanism used for client-server applications, such as computers that access a specific file or web server, or SQL database. To explain the terminology – Active Directory is a central database of user accounts and passwords used primarily in Windows networks to authenticate users, and LDAP is the protocol that clients and servers use to access the Active Directory database. Note: You should not use Broadcast NetBIOS Name Resolution and WINS at the same time.
#SWAT 4 SERVER BROWSER ALTERNATIVE EXECUTABLE ANDROID#
For example, my home network uses broadcast NetBIOS name resolution and sometimes has up to 15 devices connected (Linux, Windows 7/10, macOS, Android and iOS), all of which can browse file shares using SMB/Samba. Most are used in larger corporate or enterprise networks but you can ignore most of them – only broadcast NetBIOS name resolution or WINS are necessary to configure Samba in small home networks. You are likely to come across several terms when reading about Samba, such as NetBIOS, Active Directory (AD), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Kerberos, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) and Winbind, to name but a few. CIFS is actually obsolete, so the correct term to use these days is ‘SMB’ (see the blog post Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, "CIFS"), although ‘CIFS’ is still used sometimes when referring to SMB. An early variant of the SMB protocol is known as ‘CIFS’ (Common Internet File System). Samba is the Linux implementation of SMB that allows file and printer information to be transferred between Windows and Linux computers. SMB (Server Message Block) is the underlying protocol that Microsoft Windows computers use to connect to resources, such as file shares and printers, and to transfer information when the connections are established.