File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

How to Use Samba File Sharing: Easy Setup for Linux and Windows Your email has been sent Learn how to install, configure, and connect to Samba for Linux & Windows ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

Use the LiSt Open Files (LSOF) utility to track data flow related to ports, users, and applications. LiSt Open Files (LSOF) is a Linux utility that allows you to view current network connections and ...

Linux systems provide a lot of useful commands for reviewing network configuration and connections. Here's a look at a few, including ifquery, ifup, ifdown and ifconfig. There are a lot of commands ...