The user's file access is automatically granted or taken away. The security mask and directory security mask keeps the non zero permission bits intact so users can't screw with the file permissions ...

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Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

A next-generation test version of the open-source Samba file-sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft's Active Directory ID management software. The popular Samba ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the termination of integrated drives in dedicated media server chassis. Future systems will need to be attached ...

I just built a home file server from an E350 ITX board. I installed Zentyal 10.04, a distro mostly based on Ubuntu 10.04, with a web-ui on top. The network is gbit. I have 4GB of RAM. I have 3 drives ...

Hackers can attack Apple’s Mac OS X by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the open-source Samba file- and print-sharing software that’s included with the operating system, Symantec said Tuesday.

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, ...