For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atsign, the leader in invisible zero trust connectivity solutions, today announced that its NoPorts technology now supports invisible SMB/CIFS ...

I just sent the following to Apple's feedback page. Thoughts? Is there any reason why Apple couldn't or shouldn't include SMB/CIFS support in OSX? <P><BLOCKQUOTE ...

The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

A few people have noticed a problem in Snow Leopard where depending on the view being used, the Finder may not properly manage files on shared SMB resources. Specifically, when in column view in the ...

Common Internet File System (CIFS), also known as Server Message Block (SMB), is a platform-neutral application-layer network protocol. The CIFS protocol is commonly used for remote file access and ...

With the release of Windows server 2012, Microsoft extended the capability of its flagship operating system by including a number of new storage features that enable Windows to provide the ...

The other week, Microsoft got its security teeth kicked in when an old SMB security hole was exploited by the WannaCry ransomware attack. This week, it's the turn of Samba, the popular open-source SMB ...

Samba released three security updates, including two related to SMB connections that could be abused by an attacker already on the network to hijack connections and manipulate traffic or data sent ...

NoPorts technology eliminates the need for open ports, delivering secure, seamless SMB/CIFS access over any network, while making endpoints invisible to port scans and vulnerability exploits SAN JOSE, ...