Special thanks to Andrew Tridgell ( ) for starting and directing the Samba project and for keeping this document honest.
Brad Marshall ( ) and Jason Parker ( ) contributed time, patience, scripting and research.
Adam Neat ( ) and Dan Tager ( ) contributed the bash scripts used to back up Windows machines to a Linux host.
Matthew Flint () told me about the use of the 'interfaces' option in smb.conf.
Oleg L. Machulskiy ( ), Jeff Stern ( ), Dr. Michael Langner ( and Erik Ratcliffe ( ) suggested modifications to the section on Sharing A Linux Printer With Windows Machines.
Alberto Menegazzi ( ) contributed the MagicFilter setup to enable a Linux machine to share a Windows printer.
Rakesh Bharania ( ) contributed the suggestion for Cisco router configuration.
Rich Gregory ( ) and others suggested that this document show some details about the smbfs package and its use.
Andrea Girotto ( ) contributed a number of valuable suggestions throughout the document.
Thanks, also, to all of the international translators that have brought this HOWTO to the non-English speaking world: Takeo Nakano ( ), Klaus-Dieter Schumacher ( ), Andrea Girotto ( ), Mathieu Arnold ( ), Stein Oddvar Rasmussen ( ) Nilo Menezes ( ) and many others for whom I don't have contact details.