If you want it to access any windows shares, or access any of its files from a windows machine then you'll need to install samba on it. If you are just talking unix to unix then you can use NFS but ...

Getting a little tired of one Windows SMB (Server Message Block) security problem after another? Want a reliable and fast file and print server without the Windows server headaches? Then, may I ...

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 ...

I'm trying to get Samba working for filesharing between Windows 11 and Raspberry Pi OS "Bookworm" (Debian 12). My goals include using storage attached to my Pi as a NAS. My main issue is that various ...

There are 2,306,820 devices connected to the Internet at the moment that feature open ports for SMB services, the same protocol that was used to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with the ...