Samba

Samba is the open version of the Microsoft "file sharing for Windows" SMB protocol. This is used to share files on Linux servers with Windows clients.

The network shares on isolator and felixdisk, for instance, are served by Samba.

server - computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called clients

client - a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server