For the past four months in this column, we've been building a secured Samba server for our local LAN, using Swat. To spare those of you who have been following this series a fourth summary of the ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

I'm happy to post whatever is needed, but I'd almost rather have someone give me a clean slate. Under my old distro, I tried numerous howtos to have specific network (samba) shares mounted at boot, ...

Anyways, prior to the mount I made the user and group ownership of the recordings3 directory "mythtv" and chmod 775'ed the directory. However, after the mount, the directory shows up as: drwxr-xr-x 1 ...