A Samba file server enables file sharing across different operating systems over a network. It allows you to access your desktop files from a laptop and share files with Windows and macOS users.

After installing the Samba server you can directly append your configurations on the config file. In order to use the changes you only have to make a quick restart of the Samba server itself. A system ...

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, ...

New Samba release hits download servers "Samba 3.6 is the first 'on the wire' compatible version of the Microsoft SPOOLSS printing subsystem, and is the basis for our ongoing work to create an ...

Just about the only network task that I don't trust Linux with is being a file server for Windows clients.<BR><BR>I use NT boxes as file servers, because I can load Symantec's Enterprise Antivirus ...

Hi,<BR><BR>A samba file server gives Windows clients access to it's files...windows clients are notorious for getting/spreading viruses....how can you configure the samba server to defend it ...

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, ...