The Samba and NFS Status Monitor is a front end to the programs smbstatus and showmount. Smbstatus reports on current Samba connections, and is part of the suite of Samba tools, which implements the SMB (Session Message Block) protocol, also called the NetBIOS or LanManager 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.
Samba og NFS stöðusjáin eru viðmót forritanna smbstatus og showmount. Smbstatus sýnir virkar Samba tengingar, og er hluti forritavönduls af Samba verkfærum, sem nýta sér SMB (Session Message Block) samskiptamátann, einnig kallað NetBIOS eða LanManager samskipti. Þessi samskiptamáti getur samnýtt prentara eða diskapláss á neti, þar meðtalið vélum sem keyra ýmsar útgáfur af Microsoft Windows.