Searching for the title over the net was heavily favored in OSX users trying to read samba shares. I want to go the opposite way to have a Ubuntu box read a samba share. Ideally, I'd like that Ubuntu ...

This will make /tmp on the server available as a Samba share over TCP/IP. The use of security = user and map to guest allows guest shares to operate similarly to the deprecated security = share mode ...

My linux-fu is weak. My ordinarily rock solid Ubuntu server lives in the garage and runs Plex Media Server, hosts all my ripped media, and provides my family with a Samba on ZFS fileserver. Today, ...

Sharing files between Ubuntu and Windows or Mac systems can be done, but setting it up, until recently, wasn't quite simple. But Ubuntu's come a long way, and you can now get along without terminals, ...

I have several Linux machines on my network, each serving a different purpose. I frequently need to transfer files back and forth between them, and I'd rather not do so via a cloud service, email, or ...

Setting up Samba as an Active Directory domain controller is, however, straightforward because there is a provisioning tool that performs the setup tasks: Passwords need to be suitably complex: one ...