In this guide, we delve into the practicalities of establishing an affordable self-hosted environment tailored for home labs, home offices, and small to medium-sized enterprises. Prioritizing a lean approach that minimizes both effort and cost, our goa…
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44142) in Samba, a widely used open-source implementation of the SMB networking protocol, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on affected Samba installations. Several updated versions of Samba have been released on Monday, fixing CVE-2021-44142 and two other flaws (1, 2), but since the software is included in most […]
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Through TCP/IP protocol, Samba makes file sharing possible between two operating systems not sharing the same architecture. Through CIFS (Common Internet File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) protocols, this open-source software has made file and…
For those using Samba as the open-source implementation of SMB/CIFS and allowing for file/print sharing with Microsoft Windows systems, Samba 4.15 is now available as the latest release for improving Windows interoperability on Linux and other platform…