When securing your Samba shares, start by locking down user and group security. Follow this tutorial to learn how. Samba is a critical component to mixed-platform networks. If you have any intention ...

The developers of the open-source Samba file server product are urging users to upgrade to the latest 2.2.8 stable version of Samba after discovering a potentially critical flaw in earlier versions.

I'm trying to get samba users to work but it just says it can't open the database. I made sure to chmod it to 777 and it's still not working, so perhaps I got the wrong file, but I'm pretty sure it's ...

Ive just installed Fedora Core 1 and now im trying to setup Samba. I know it has new features but im only interested in setting up the same configuration that I had in Samba 2.2.7a. Even better if I ...

This month, we continue our exercise in building a secure file server for our local LAN using Samba. In case you missed the first two installments, this is a non-Internet-accessible file server to ...

The Android Samba Client app has landed on the Play Store today. If you’re a user of the Samba Client on desktop and laptop computers, this will give you the ability to utilize the same capabilities ...

For the past four months in this column, we've been building a secured Samba server for our local LAN, using Swat. To spare those of you who have been following this series a fourth summary of the ...