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 ...

No. Unless you use the "force group" or "force user" directives to make samba perform file operations as the forced users, samba obeys filesystem permissions. The "valid users" directive simply ...

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The big file-sharing leap came with Samba 4. That release brought Linux an Active Directory (AD) domain controller. With that version, Samba gained the ability to share files with both old and new ...

I just set up a home file server. The server is running FreeBSD 7.0 with 5 disk drives: One small disk with UFS for everything non-data (boot, OS, programs) and four larger disks with ZFS. The four ...

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 ...

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 ...