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A next-generation test version of the open source Samba file sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft's Active Directory ID management software. The popular Samba ...

I just built a home file server from an E350 ITX board. I installed Zentyal 10.04, a distro mostly based on Ubuntu 10.04, with a web-ui on top. The network is gbit. I have 4GB of RAM. I have 3 drives ...

We at Northrop Grumman recently decided to replace the Microsoft Windows 2000 server on one of our networks with a Linux server running Samba. The primary motivations for replacing the Windows server ...

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 ...

It recently occurred to me that in the eight years or so I've been writing this column, I've never covered file servers. I've covered secure file transfer, for example, via scp, rsync and vsftpd, ...

I run CentOS 5.4 on a Dell T300 with a 3x1Tb RAID5 (PERC6) (extremely low budget here- and we need disk). I use CentOS' Xen + libvirt to run virtual boxes. The host disk performance looks good (I know ...