For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

Any burst of errors with a length of 32 or less There are obviously other potential issues. I got that list from here. IPv6 does away with those TCP protocol checksums because Ethernet already has a ...

I've set up quite a few file servers using Linux in my day, and although it's not particularly difficult, I've often thought that there should be a better way to do it. The folks at the OpenFiler ...

Despite existing in an era where cloud storage has largely taken over as the primary choice for casual file sharing, transferring files over your local network is still essential for any home with ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Long the moody loner of network file services, Microsoft's SMB protocol is growing up and learning to play nice. This is one time "new & improved" really means it. Fixing the old The most common ...

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 ...

The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...