ALL meanings of samba
sam·ba
S s - noun samba Latin American ballroom dance 1
- noun samba Latin American dance rhythm 1
- noun plural samba a rhythmic, Brazilian ballroom dance of African origin. 1
- verb without object samba to dance the samba. 1
- noun Technical meaning of samba (networking) A free suite of programs which implement the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Originally developed for Unix by Andrew Tridgell at the Australian National University, the Samba server allows files and printers on the host operating system to be shared with clients such as Windows for Workgroups, DOS, OS/2, Windows NT and others. For example, instead of using telnet to log in to a Unix machine to edit a file there, a Windows 95 user might connect a drive in the Windows Explorer to a Samba server on the Unix machine and edit the file in a Windows editor. A Unix client called smbclient, built from the same source code, allows ftp-like access to SMB resources. Samba is available for many Unix variants, OS/2, and VMS. Porting to Novell Netware is in progress (August 1996). smblib is a portable generic library for making SMB calls for implementing client/server functions from within any program. Linux implements a complete file system (based on smbclient) so by default Linux users have full access to resources on LAN Server, Windows NT and LAN Manager networks. 1
- countable noun samba A samba is a lively Brazilian dance. 0
- noun samba a lively modern ballroom dance from Brazil in bouncy duple time 0
- noun samba a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance 0
- verb samba to perform such a dance 0
- noun samba a Brazilian dance of African origin, in duple time, with a syncopated rhythm 0
- noun samba music for this dance 0
- intransitive verb samba to dance the samba 0