Top 15 Samba Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others. Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon.

1. Permissions Reporter

Permissions Reporter Permissions Reporter allows you to quickly validate the current security posture of entire local and/or network file systems at once. All with multiple export formats, command-line support, built-in scheduling, and much more.......

2. NTFS-Search

NTFS-Search This tool enables users to search their NTFS formatted harddrives within seconds. It uses the MFT (master file table) of NTFS to search for files very fast.......

3. DMDE

DMDE DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.Besides NTFS, it can handle other file systems such......

4. winNFSd

winNFSd WinNFSd is a Network File System (NFS) server for Windows. You can use any NFS client to mount a directory of Windows and read/write files via NFS …......

5. Hetman Partition Recovery

Hetman Partition Recovery Undelete files, unformat partitions and recover corrupted hard drives with easy step-by-step wizards. A single, all-in-one solution will take care of all your disk and data recovery needs. Hetman Partition Recovery can unerase deleted files and folders, recover files from formatted, corrupted, repartitioned and inaccessible storage media. In addition, Hetman......

6. sshfs

sshfs This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the......

7. FreeUndelete

FreeUndelete FreeUndelete restores deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (1.0 and 2.0) (default for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32, FAT16 or FAT12 file systems this is the utility to help.......

8. Scrounge NTFS

Scrounge NTFS Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.......

9. DiskExplorer

DiskExplorer This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS. You can use it to view and edit NTFS file system structures. It dissects all necessary information for you. Its a good tool to learn something about NTFS.......

10. Pandora Recovery

Pandora Recovery Pandora Recovery allows you to browse, search and recover regular, archived, hidden or encrypted files for free. Recover images and files from digital cameras, flash drives and hard drives. Pandora Recovery software finds and recovers deleted files for free. Undelete accidentally deleted images, documents, movies or files of any other......

11. ExpanDrive

ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP, Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, OpenStack Swift Object Storage, DreamObjects, WebDAV, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box.com.......

12. SoftPerfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your......

13. Hddb File Search

Hddb File Search Hddb is a file search tool like Everything .Everything has some problems; Hddb fixes them.Hddb doesn't require admin permission when doing file search, so no UAC prompt is required on startup. UAC prompt is required only when building the database. You can even install a build service. When......

14. Handy Recovery

Handy Recovery Handy Recovery is designed to restore accidentally deleted files on hard and floppy drives with FAT12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS 5 file systems. It can recover files deleted by virus attacks, power failures and software faults. Undelete files and partition recovery.......

15. Tuxera NTFS for Mac

Tuxera NTFS for Mac The fastest way to read and write Windows disks from Mac OS X, which doesn't support writing to NTFS volumes out-of-the box. It builds and extends upon the proven stability of the open source NTFS-3G to deliver a full featured, commercial grade NTFS driver for your Mac. With Tuxera NTFS......