I have a samba 3.0.2 server which I connect to from various windows 2000 and XP machines. Even if I set "disable netbios = yes", my Windows machines have to have netBIOS enabled to connect to the ...

The most typical use of Samba is to make Unix home directories or shared files available on Windows. Being most comfortable on the command line, I generally do this by opening a Command Prompt and ...

Samba is a remarkable piece of engineering. It provides directory tree browsing and sharing; disk, file and printer sharing; WINS resolution; and Windows domain client authentication. It runs under ...

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 ...

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, ...