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, ...

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 ...

LibreOffice is one of the best open-source office suites on the market. I use it regularly and have found it to perfectly suit many of my use cases. I prefer it over most other similar tools not only ...

I just built a home file server from an E350 ITX board. I installed Zentyal 10.04, a distro mostly based on Ubuntu 10.04, with a web-ui on top. The network is gbit. I have 4GB of RAM. I have 3 drives ...

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 ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

I'm using Samba on a file server, but when I view a share with a Windows file manager the file manager does not update it's view when files are modified.<BR><BR>I was told this is a feature that ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

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, ...