The other week, Microsoft got its security teeth kicked in when an old SMB security hole was exploited by the WannaCry ransomware attack. This week, it's the turn of Samba, the popular open-source SMB ...

A Raspberry Pi can be a fantastic low-power computer or server, but moving files between a Pi and your other devices over a network isn't straightforward. Thankfully, it only takes a few steps to set ...

It recently occurred to me that in the eight years or so I've been writing this column, I've never covered file servers. I've covered secure file transfer, for example, via scp, rsync and vsftpd, ...

Samba is an incredibly powerful tool for sharing directories. Here's how to use Samba, in conjunction with the built-in user and group tools, to make Samba easier to administer. If you make use of a ...