"We spend $7 billion a year on research, development and cranking out innovations. We need to protect our innovations against people who infringe upon them."
Good news for interoperable SMB implementations. I've used Samba for nearly a decade in both file server and PDC uses, and it definitely makes life more sane when you have Linux or OS X in the same house as a Windows box.
socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Data channels may be a file, pipe, device, a socket, an SSL socket, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), or an external program.