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    In this ZDNet Australia special report, the creator of the open source file sharing software Samba explains how he came to write the software that has earned him Bulletin Magazine's Smartest 100 award in the ICT sector for 2003.

  • Security company apologises for disclosure foul-up

    A US-based security company has apologised for prematurely disclosing code that took advantage of a serious vulnerability in Samba, the Linux-based file and print sharing software commonly used in Windows environments.

  • Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go

    The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions.

  • Microsoft co-operation working well: Samba author

    Co-operation between Microsoft and the developers of the open source Samba protocol is going much better since a landmark settlement in December, according to the software's original developer.

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  • Salmonberry or Samba? What's in a name for Tridge

    Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.

  • Troubleshooting Samba

    Samba is a great tool for making Windows and Linux play nice together, and these basic troubleshooting steps will help you resolve common problems.

  • Troubleshoot Samba with these tips

    Learn how to approach some common problems that can lock up Samba.

  • Microsoft needs some open-source fairy dust

    Novell, Sun, IBM and HP have all managed to appropriate some of the positive kudos generated by the open-source community, leaving Microsoft looking cold and out of touch.

  • Photos: Linux.conf.au 2008

    This year's linux.conf.au conference, held at Melbourne University, was an all out Linux free-for-all. Highlights include images of the new XO Linux laptop and an interview with Linus Torvalds.

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    Salmonberry or Samba? What's in a name for Tridge

    Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.

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    Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

    Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.

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    Acknowledgement tickles Samba's fancy

    With the normal TCP/IP setup it can take up to two hours for a dropped connection to terminate -- Andrew Tridgell explains how the Samba project faced this problem when creating clustered Samba.

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