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 ...

There are a lot of practical uses for a personal server, both at home and for a business. You can use them to network local computers, provide communal storage, host email, and a variety of other ...

One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation. A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting ...

Google released a brand-new Samba client for Android a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, the client exclusively relies on the vulnerable SMBv1 protocol that was exploited by 'Wannacry' ransomware. A ...

We've received several reports from readers indicating problems connecting to SMB (Samba) servers through certain third-party wireless routers. Users experiencing ...

Samba released three security updates, including two related to SMB connections that could be abused by an attacker already on the network to hijack connections and manipulate traffic or data sent ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Proof-of-concept code for a zero-day in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that affects several Windows versions has been published online today, sending sysadmins into a frenzy to protect ...

Not sure how or why, but I've suddenly lost the ability to connect to the NAS via SMBon some client machines. Three devices still have access, others don't. Windows just says the \\nas device doesn't ...