# Samba [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) is a free software implementation of the SMB protocol which provides file and print services. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite for Linux and Unix. ## Setup The software can be setup via [Docker](/wiki/docker.md) with the [samba image](./docker/samba.md). ## Usage For the Linux based operating systems the handling of Samba shares is taken care of by [mount.cifs](./linux/samba.md).