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 ...

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Jack Wallen shows you how to quickly get Samba shares up and running on any Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Samba is a key component of using Linux in a business environment.

Help for ppl new to samba, this would have helped me alot.<BR><BR>Ok, here is a little faq i have made this week getting samba on my little network.<BR><BR>Situation:<BR>2 linux boxes (1 samba server, ...

First I'll start out with the desired behavior of this configuration: Windows clients should be able to browse to their "home" directory on the Linux/Samba server and be transparently authenticated ...

The big file-sharing leap came with Samba 4. That release brought Linux an Active Directory (AD) domain controller. With that version, Samba gained the ability to share files with both old and new ...

We at Northrop Grumman recently decided to replace the Microsoft Windows 2000 server on one of our networks with a Linux server running Samba. The primary motivations for replacing the Windows server ...

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 ...

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, ...