[ Thanks to Michael
Hall for this link. ]
“Samba is not important just for those rogue sysadmins
who try to avoid buying Windows Server products. Samba is used by
storage appliance manufacturers and within a wide variety of other
embedded devices. Samba interoperability is therefore important for
both IT shops that run Linux servers, and businesses that sell
Linux-based devices. Microsoft may not, contrary to popular belief,
intentionally break Samba, but updates to the protocol and client
default settings (due to complaints about security in the Windows
world) often leave Samba unable to operate, which brings us to some
good news:“This time, with Windows 7, only half of Samba stops
working.“Accessing Samba shares from Windows 7 “just works.” That is,
assuming you’re running a relatively recent version of Samba. Samba
3.3.2, which ships with Ubuntu Jaunty, works perfectly with Windows
Vista and therefore Windows 7 (they are the same, really). In
testing, we had no problem connecting to various different Samba
servers and Windows XP-based shares.”