Samba
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Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount
Reviews Although it covers all the NAS bases and is very affordable, it's hard to see the TeraStation Pro II Rackmount having much of an impact on the business market.
Tags: Backup, USB, Small Business, Serial ATA, File-sharing, network, Linux, disk, Ethernet, built-In
Latest Samba preview launched
News A second test version of the open-source software aims to fix bugs and add support for Microsoft's Active Directory protocols.
Tags: Operating systems, Business applications
Samba 3.0 enhances Windows and Active Directory integration
Insight Discover how Samba 3.0's features improve--and sometimes limit--Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 integration and functionality. Plus, learn how Samba 3 servers can now completely replace Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Five reasons to hire open source developers
Techguide Afraid an open source developer will be a liability to your organization? TechRepublic's Jack Wallen offers some reasons to think otherwise.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Human resources, Trends, Apache Software Foundation, Open-source Developer, Apache Web server, Open-source Community, Microsoft Windows, proprietary software
Microsoft founds and funds open source forum
News Software company has created a not-for-profit foundation to address integration and cultural issues between open source and proprietary software.
Tags: Open source, software company, Chicago, Open-source Community, Jeremy Allison, Linux, Samba, Open source
Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL
News Jeremy Allison, leader of the Samba project, views Microsoft's patent suit against TomTom as part of wider attempt to undermine the open source GPL software license.
Tags: Open source, Software licensing, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, GPL, TomTom, software, Open-source Community, Jeremy Allison
Fedora 11 to get link to Exchange
News Release 11 of Red Hat's Fedora project will include OpenChange, a technology designed to give any e-mail client native access to Microsoft Exchange.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., Messaging, e-mail, Samba, Linux, Open source, Enterprise Linux
Samba 3.2 adds cluster support
News The file and print server software has received a major update, adding clustered file system support, compatibility tweaks and other improvements.
Tags: IPv6, Windows Vista, Open source, Linux, File Server, Apple Mac OS, server software, software, antitrust, Microsoft Windows
BSD bug found and fixed after 25 years
News A Unix developer has discovered a bug in the BSD operating system that has been passed down to all its variants, including OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
Tags: Linux, Mac OS, Open source, OpenBSD, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, BSD, software, network, Berkeley Software Design Inc.
Monitorix makes server-monitoring easy
Techguide While it's important to get a remote view of your servers with tools like Nagios, it's not always easy to get a full "local" view of things like CPU load and network service demand. Monitorix can fill in the gaps of your monitoring needs.
Tags: Open source, Server platforms, Diagnostics and monitoring, SSH, network device, Telnet, RPM Package, Monitorix RPM, Server, monitoring
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News A US Department of Homeland Security-funded project has listed some of the most frequent open source coding errors.
Tags: Open source, Security, Coverity, Flaw, Python, buffer-overflow vulnerability, Perl, accounting, Java, Samba
Linux kernel developer's guide published
News The Linux Foundation has released the guide for developers in an attempt to encourage participation by new programmers by explaining what is involved.
Tags: Linux, Software engineering/development, Open source, Developer, Kernel, Linux Kernel, consortium, release candidate, patch management, Jeremy Allison
Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat
News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community
Using pam_mount to automount filesystems at login
Techguide Pam_mount can take a password entered at login and use it to mount an encrypted filesystem. It can also mount non-encrypted filesystems.
Tags: Linux, Infrastructure/architecture management, Configuration File, Authentication, File System, On-demand, Password, Mandriva, Network File System, Vincent Danen
Samba 4 moves closer to production
News A second 'technology preview' of the open source networking tool is out, but its developers have warned it's not secure.
Tags: Networking, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open source
