Source : WordNet®

samba
     n 1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves
          and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and
          one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
          [syn: {obeche}, {obechi}, {arere}, {Triplochiton
          scleroxcylon}]
     2: music composed for dancing the samba
     3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
     4: a form of canasta using three decks and six jokers

samba
     v : dance the samba

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Samba
     
         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.
     
        {Home (http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html)}.
     
        (1998-11-22)