Raspberry Pi 3B+: meet the new member of the family.Get a free Pi Zero W, official case, and accessories with a 12-month subscription to The MagPi. With Samba activated you can quickly copy files from a computer on your network to a Raspberry using wireless LAN (or a direct Ethernet connection). Samba is the Linux implementation of the SMB/CIFS file sharing standard used by Windows PCs and Apple computers, and widely supported by media streamers, games consoles and mobile apps. It’s easy to use a Raspberry Pi as a Samba file server where you can store backups and share files from all the other computers on your network.