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 ...

In spite of the huge differences between Linux and Windows, sharing files between the systems is surprisingly easy. Here’s a look at two very different ways to make this happen.

It provides wire-speed performance reading and writing files over SMB. It can happily run Linux, FreeBSD or Windows Server, drivers are plentiful and it has an onboard PCI slot.

DiskInternals Linux Reader lets you read files from Ex2/3/4, UFS2, HFS and ReiserFS/4 Linux file systems which are not natively supported on Windows 11/10.

Samba flaw threatens Linux file servers A security firm finds a second major security glitch in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux systems.

I might, for instance, RDP in to this machine from my laptop while playing online poker and use the file server horsepower to unzip/unrar large files from "Purgatory" (where files go when they ...

Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is ...

The PC operating system landscape is largely divided into Windows, macOS, and Linux, with Windows taking the lead in terms of ...

In Windows, users cannot have two files in the same folder with the exact same name. In Microsoft Windows, program and system files are almost always stored in the C: drive, while program and system ...