Companies offering Linux solutions are reporting some successes in the hard-to-crack small and medium business market. Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium ...

I've been having issues with mounting windows shares on my linux workstation. It worked fine for a while till about maybe 6 months ago it started taking about 30 seconds to mount the filesystem. I've ...

Dell said last week that in addition to selling PCs based on Ubuntu Linux, it will also offer systems designed for the SMB market -- outside the US. After some confusion over Dell's Linux strategy, ...

Earlier on today, I posted about the Office-less office. Now I have to continue with the chimera that is Linux for SMBs! Yes, some yobs are advocating that small businesses yank out their current ...

The open-source development team releases an update to its Samba software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux or Unix servers. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Many small businesses think the servers they use all run Windows operating systems, but many file server appliances are Linux-based systems using Samba for interoperability with their Windows or Mac ...

Not to worry; Linux is multi-lingual and, as usual, gobbles up interoperability in its stride. It provides an SMB implementation which is named Samba and which can make any printers attached to your ...

It's still a solid file-sharing protocol, though ...