In the first installment of this SMB tutorial, Emmett walks you through the first few steps of configuring SMB on a Windows home network, using Fedora 8 as an example. If you've been wanting to try ...

For sharing large files at home, I look no further than using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on my machines. I was okay with transferring GBs worth of several ISOs of operating systems, ...

One of Samba's strengths is you can use it to blend your mix of Windows and Linux machines without needing a separate Windows NT/2000 Server. In this article, we describe some recommended methods for ...

How do I… Connect a Mac OS X machine to a Samba share? Your email has been sent Working (or living) within a Linux-based network is become more and more commonplace ...

I have to change the configuration for MySQL and Samba (for un-related reasons) and I have no idea which or where the config files are.<BR><BR>I know that by default MySQL uses /etc/my.cnf but I don't ...

In this walkthrough, we show you how to easily store Final Cut Pro X libraries on a Synology NAS with just a few configuration steps. We’ve posted a prior solution before that utilized the NFS ...

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 ...

I’ve been working with Linux since 1997, and it’s been a rare occasion that I don’t take advantage in one way or another of Samba file sharing. With Samba, I can easily create and manage shares that ...