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Jeremy Allison
AS Profile Computer programmer Jeremy Allison is one of the co-founders and leading developers of the Samba team that developed a suite of open source software in 1992, released under the GNU general public license (GPL), that... [07 Oct 2008]
Linux Foundation releases developer guide
News Linus in the Linux kernel has lieutenants around him, [as does] Jeremy Allison at Samba. A guide to the kernel development process aims to encourage participation by new programmers by explaining what's involved. [18 Aug 2008]
Instrumentation of Open-Source Software for Intrusion Detection
White Paper Examples of these software packages include the Apache web server, open source DHCP servers, and network share software such as Samba. A significant number of cyber assaults are attempted against open source internet... [03 Jul 2008]
Financial Group Enhances Operations Through Services Engagement
White Paper The Samba team periodically updated and patched all software using its in-place Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, but the success ratio for desktops and servers remained below internal thresholds due to... [23 Apr 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo Some of the other highlights of Macworld included Belkin using live samba music to demonstrate its portable iPod tuner (above). A video was played showing Gates asking various celebrities for a job. His encounter with... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld
Photo Mac fans could get a taste of samba at the Belkin booth, where Quetzal Guerrero and Gustavo Angeles play into Belkin's TuneStudio, a portable tuner made for the iPod. The Apple display at Macworld 2008 features MacBook... [17 Jan 2008]
Using Samba: Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization
White Paper Authentication is proving that the user is who he or she says they are. One does this every day, during such activities as printing a document or saving a file to a network drive. When things are working correctly, the steps taken by a... [24 Oct 2007]
Linux in a Windows World: Using NT Domains for Linux Authentication
White Paper Fortunately, Samba's Winbind software helps bridge this gap. Using Winbind requires configuring Samba options for Winbind, as well as for PAM and another helper tool, the Name Service Switch (NSS). If... [24 Oct 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News Miller said that on 31 July Apple did update its version of Samba - but that was the first time in two and a half years, and the latest version still fell short of the current open-source version. Miller and his... [14 Aug 2007]
Four Years of Quality and Consistency: A FaxPress Case Study
White Paper RGB installed a high-end Acer Altos server with Linux Network OS and moved all file and printer sharing to the new server through the installation and proper configuration of Samba. RGB Systems, a value-added reseller... [15 May 2007]
KDE Case Study: Computer & Network Consulting
White Paper The workstations are served from several servers (databases, nfs, samba, nis, internet access, fax, intranet mail) all running SuSE Linux 7.2. Located at Jena, Germany Computer & Network Consulting use KDE since 1.0 on... [25 Apr 2007]
Has BT violated the GPL?
News The FSFE's Freedom Task Force unit has now begun contacting the software developers who own the copyright within the Linux kernel, and other pieces of open source software such as the Samba file and print application, to... [29 Jan 2007]
Second Life software goes open source
News Linden Lab released the viewer software under the General Public Licence (GPL), the licence that governs the Linux kernel, Samba file server software, the MySQL database and thousands of other projects. [09 Jan 2007]
Performing Centralized Concurrent Backups With Amanda
White Paper Amanda is a collection of C programs designed to run automated centralized concurrent backups using the vendor's dump software (ufsdump in the case of the Solaris OS), GNU tar, and SAMBA. There are a number of enterprise... [01 Nov 2006]
A multitude of new features in Samba 4 will simplify life for network administrators
White Paper A multitude of newly integrated capabilities will make working with Samba 4 in a CIFS Active Directory context a much easier and more complete experience than it has been before. Samba has become a de... [20 May 2006]
