The open-source development team releases an update to its Samba software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux or Unix servers. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

We’ve been discussing Samba, the open source freeware implementation of the Server Message Block protocol, and last week we established a NetBIOS session between a client and a Samba server. Now we ...

Last week we dug into the Samba system and suggested that you download a copy so we could set it up. Given the number of possible server operating systems that Samba is available on, we’re going to ...