In the first installment of this SMB tutorial, Emmett walks you through the first few steps of configuring SMB on a Windows home network, using Fedora 8 as an example. If you've been wanting to try ...

Not to worry; Linux is multi-lingual and, as usual, gobbles up interoperability in its stride. It provides an SMB implementation which is named Samba and which can make any printers attached to your ...

How do I… Connect a Mac OS X machine to a Samba share? Your email has been sent Working (or living) within a Linux-based network is become more and more commonplace ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week we dug into the Samba system and suggested that you download a copy so we could set it up. Given the number of possible server operating systems that Samba is available on, we’re going to ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...