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<H3><A NAME="s1">1. The Samba Status Monitor</A></H3>

<P>The Samba Status Monitor is a
front end to the program <CODE>smbstatus</CODE>
which reports on current 
Samba connections, and is part of the
suite of Samba tools, which implements the <B> SMB</B>
(<EM>Session Message Block</EM>) protocol, also called
the <B>NetBIOS</B> or <B>LanManager</B> protocol.
This protocol can be  used to
provide  printer-sharing 
or drive-sharing services on a network including
machines running the various  flavors of 
Microsoft  Windows.
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<P>The information supplied by 
<CODE>smbstatus</CODE> is listed for each SMB
service.   
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<P><EM>Note</EM>: an error message appears if 
the program <CODE>smbstatus</CODE>
was not found on your system.
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