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 issue in the file-sharing and interop platform also affects Red Hat, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu packages. A critical severity vulnerability in the Samba platform could allow attackers to gain remote ...

If you’re having trouble sharing out your ~Public directory in Ubuntu 22.04, Jack Wallen has the fix for you. With the release of Ubuntu 22.04, several changes occurred under the hood to make this ...

I've been playing with a couple of Hetzner boxes, an ARM VPS and a storage box. The VPS has 40GB disc for about 5UKP a month, the storage box has 1TB disc for about £3.50 a month. Adding 1TB to the ...

Not sure if this is the right forum since it is either a Linux problem or a Windows problem. I put up a small Ubuntu 20.04 backup server and shared a folder on it. Users, groups, etc should be all ...

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 ...

Samba provides a set of tools that allow Unix systems to share resources with their Windows counterparts and is both easy to set up and remarkably reliable. Still, there are times when you might want ...

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 ...