Learn how to take six important steps that will greatly increase the security of your Samba server. Security is a balance between allowing the right people easy access to a resource and preventing ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

Last month, I began a multipart series of articles on how to build a secure file server based on Samba for local (non-Internet-facing) use. I gave an overview of file server security goals, described ...