Ram's Technology Notes
In my home setup, we have a mix of devices (Windows 8.x, Windows RT, Windows Phone, Linux, Android and iOS). As part of my home server setup, I’ve setup Samba to share folders with the other devices – there are a few subtleties with setting up the Samba shares so you can access them with…
I was looking at my logs and noticed that smbd had crashed a few times since install. Searched the samba bug database and found this bug which was reporting the same issue. I have applied the patch supplied and updated the package – here’s how I patched and updated: In your samba source folder, run…
I am in the process of rebuilding my home server which will run Ubuntu Server – I will be putting up a series of detailed posts on my philosophy and experiences through this process. In the meantime, here’s the scoop on setting up the latest version of Samba on Ubuntu 12.04. This post provides a…