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Server Message Block
 
(
SMB
) protocol, which is primarily used by Windows systems. However, you don't 
need to use the Windows platform in order to be able to access Samba shares, since 
many platforms offer support for this protocol. Even Android phones are able to 
access Samba file shares with the appropriate app, as well as other platforms.
You may be wondering why I am going to cover two different solutions in this 
chapter. After all, if Samba shares can be accessed by pretty much everything and 
everyone, why bother with anything else? Even with Samba's many strengths, there 
are also weaknesses as well. First of all, permissions are handled very differently, 
so you'll need to configure your shares in specific ways in order to prevent access 
to users that shouldn't be able to see confidential data. With NFS, full support for 
standard UNIX permissions is provided, so you'll only need to configure your 
permissions once. If permissions and confidentiality are important to you, you 
may want to look closer at NFS.

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