Many small businesses think the servers they use all run Windows operating systems, but many file server appliances are Linux-based systems using Samba for interoperability with their Windows or Mac ...

The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux ...

Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you're running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now, ...

It recently occurred to me that in the eight years or so I've been writing this column, I've never covered file servers. I've covered secure file transfer, for example, via scp, rsync and vsftpd, ...

LinuxWorld.com – There I was, in the middle of a Samba class — and nothing was working! Half the class had Linux boxes running Samba, and the other half had Windows 98, which had been installed by the ...

<RANT><BR><BR>Perhaps this is specific to SMB shares, although I don't recall problems with my PC not knowing what is on a server. Besides, I can force it to refresh if I want to.<BR><BR>I have SMB ...

Getting a little tired of one Windows SMB (Server Message Block) security problem after another? Want a reliable and fast file and print server without the Windows server headaches? Then, may I ...

Just wondering...one of our servers that runs Win2k AD in a one server dept. has been compromised with a root kit. The Server needs rebuilding, my management wants to go with Netware 6..which I dont ...

Companies offering Linux solutions are reporting some successes in the hard-to-crack small and medium business market. Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium ...