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 ...

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 ...

A company that needs to send and receive large files that mail can't handle, both between clients and between affiliate companies in other regions needs an FTP server.<BR><BR>They currently run some ...

Before I begin my discussion of the new NT domain features in Samba, I’d like to discuss some important differences between the NT and Unix security models. Parts of the user-account model in 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 ...

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 ...