To support SMB/CIFS networking between servers on Red Hat 7, which package group is commonly installed?

• A. NFS utilities
• B. FTP server packages
• C. Samba, samba-client, samba-common, cifs-utils
• D. SSH server packages

Answer: (C)

SMB/CIFS networking between Red Hat 7 servers is provided by Samba, which implements the SMB protocol used by Windows and offers both server and client capabilities. Installing the Samba package group—samba (server binaries), samba-client (tools to access SMB shares), samba-common (shared Samba files and configurations), and cifs-utils (kernel mount utilities for CIFS/SMB)—gives you everything needed to host SMB shares and to mount or access SMB shares from Linux. The other options relate to different protocols or services: NFS utilities for NFS, FTP server packages for FTP, and SSH server packages for secure remote access. Therefore, the Samba-related package group is the correct choice.