One of Samba's strengths is you can use it to blend your mix of Windows and Linux machines without needing a separate Windows NT/2000 Server. In this article, we describe some recommended methods for ...

Samba has addressed a critical severity vulnerability that can let attackers gain remote code execution with root privileges on servers running vulnerable software. Samba is an open-source ...

Hi, I've been using samba successfully for quite some time on my server here, but I have run into a configuration puzzle that I can't quite figure out.<BR><BR>I want a share to be accessable by all ...

The administrators behind the open-source Samba software platform have issued an emergency patch for a security hole that potentially could allow hackers to upload malicious files to vulnerable ...

Last month, I began a multipart series of articles on how to build a secure file server based on Samba for local (non-Internet-facing) use. I gave an overview of file server security goals, described ...

This work is a step-by-step how to guide for configuring Samba file server, Quota andscheduled backup of important files. The paper provides an installation guide for,1. Samba server.2. Quota.3.

Red Hat has released a beta version of its next Linux release, codenamed Phoebe. The updated version includes a new tool, called Redhat-config-samba, designed to configure Samba servers via a ...

I currently have a samba server that has one user and one group that gives access to everything on the server. The need to start implementing some access control has arisen. Currently there is no LDAP ...