That's because, as Jeremy Allison, a Google storage and open-source engineer and a senior Samba developer, explained, "This is a protocol-level vulnerability." Specifically, "the Security Account ...

Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you're running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now, ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

Microsoft's position on Server Message Block version 1 (SMB 1) in Windows systems is that organizations should just get rid of it. Essentially, the 30-year-old SMB 1 protocol permits man-in-the-middle ...

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 ...

First I'll start out with the desired behavior of this configuration: Windows clients should be able to browse to their "home" directory on the Linux/Samba server and be transparently authenticated ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for people in the Windows Server Insider Program. It has the build number of 25987 and includes improvements of SMB over QUIC features. The new ...

The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server will remove the formerly bundled open source Samba software and replace it with Apple's own tools for Windows file sharing and network directory ...