Luxembourg, May 25 - FSFE played a key role at a Microsoft hearing before the European Union's General Court on Tuesday, helping explain the intricacies of Free Software servers.
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Mozilla Avoids MPEG-LA’s Latest Poison Pill and Rejects Patents Just Like Samba Does
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Mozilla maintains its anti-patents stance and Red Hat could take a lesson from Mozilla
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Samba Configuration with Webmin
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The Webmin administration tool is a very powerful suite of web-based admin tools (for the Linux operating system) that have been around for some time. Webmin includes numerous modules covering nearly every aspect of Linux administration.
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How To Create a Public Share on Samba
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The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to set up a public share on your Samba server that can be used by everyone on your network with all rights. This will enable everyone on a Windows machine to access this without a password. Of course, this has security implications but it is a good way to get something working.
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With Windows 7, Only Half of Samba Stops Working
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Bringing Windows 7 clients into your Linux network is exactly what the fine Samba server is made for. But every Windows release comes with new interop roadblocks, and Windows 7 is no exception. Charlie Schluting shows how to get past the latest ones.
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Samba's Jeremy Allison on GPL compliance: "It's not that hard to obey the license."
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In the most recent episode of the Software Freedom Law Show--released early for holiday travelers--Jeremy Allison talks about his resignation from Novell, the first time he discovered a GPL violation at Samba, and why complying with the license is pretty easy. "What I keep trying to get over, get across to people, especially corporate legal types, is 'We want you to use our stuff.
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Fedora 11 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 11 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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Mono and Samba: smell the difference, says Allison
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He argues that including Mono as a default part of a GNU/Linux distribution is an unnecessary risk to users and using it should be left up to users - much in the same way that users are free to install players to run patented MP3 files
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Likewise: Microsoft Embraces and Extends Samba with Software Patents?
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A partly Microsoft-derived entity harms Samba by taking its work and making it more Microsoft obedient
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How to Debug Samba Server and solve user connection problems
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How to debug Samba connection problems and stay alive.
Samba logging and Debugging skills that every sysadmin needs.
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Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba
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Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
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What Samba Can Teach Us About Mono
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A look back at the history of Samba and Microsoft suggests that Microsoft might be exploiting Novell and Mono
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FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish. After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last year.
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What's So Evil About Mono?
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The Mono project has been branded as evil, a sellout, a product of a Microsoft-loving lackey from its inception.
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"Can we fix it? Yes, we can!"
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Jeremy Allison on free software, Samba clusters and world domination...
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