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 ...

The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux ...

Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice are excellent cloud-based, open-source office suites. Nextcloud Office is a full-featured office suite. OnlyOffice doesn't have as many features, but it's more ...

Companies offering Linux solutions are reporting some successes in the hard-to-crack small and medium business market. Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium ...

LinuxWorld.com – There I was, in the middle of a Samba class — and nothing was working! Half the class had Linux boxes running Samba, and the other half had Windows 98, which had been installed by the ...

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 ...

<RANT><BR><BR>Perhaps this is specific to SMB shares, although I don't recall problems with my PC not knowing what is on a server. Besides, I can force it to refresh if I want to.<BR><BR>I have SMB ...

Just wondering...one of our servers that runs Win2k AD in a one server dept. has been compromised with a root kit. The Server needs rebuilding, my management wants to go with Netware 6..which I dont ...

There are 2,306,820 devices connected to the Internet at the moment that feature open ports for SMB services, the same protocol that was used to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with the ...