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.

There are five steps in configuring a network to work with a Linux gateway: Enable IP forwarding in the Linux kernel on the gateway computer. Configure the gateway computer.

Setting Up Samba on Linux Setting up Samba involves installing the necessary packages, configuring the smb.conf file to define shared directories and their permissions, and then managing access and ...

In the above example, I've defined four servers. If I wanted to generate this configuration file automatically, I had to figure out some way to detect what servers were running Munin on my network.

What you will need You don’t need much to get Samba up and running: A Windows workgroup. A Linux machine. A bit of time. I’ll demonstrate this on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, but the process works ...