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+smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB protocol. This is the
+protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or Lan Manager use to talk
+to each other. smbfs was inspired by samba, the program written by
+Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix host into a file server for DOS or
+Windows clients.  See ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/ for
+this interesting program suite and lots of more information on SMB and
+NetBIOS over TCP/IP. There you also find explanation for conceps like
+netbios name or share.
+
+To use smbfs, you need a special mount program, which can be found in
+the ksmbfs package, found on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/ALPHA/smbfs.
+
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