Samba File Sharing

When I first fired up my Samba File Sharing using Ubuntu Karmic Koala, I was so ecstatic that I could now say goodbye to our Novell Netware File Sharing. Kind of creppy at first, knowing this is Linux environment but everything worked smoothly. Very fast and efficient as what network users would always say. Indeed it was superb.

And then came the viruses and worm starting to creep on Samba shared folders. Some infect and morphed dramatically in seconds that almost devour the Network resources. It totally drained me down and had to find some sort of magical powers that can resolved this.

Good to know that the Power of Sharing has evolved and by a mere googling about Samba File Sharing, countless solutions popped up and I see the "tunnel of light". The Veto files was the answer. When I applied it into every Samba Shared folder config, I could feel the viruses keep on banging their heads into every Shared folders without success.

 In Veto command, I put those virus known extensions; e.g. *.com *.exe *.ini *.bat *.inf *.vbs, and it will not allow saving those files having those extensions. Also, if your quite more strict, you could put in their those resource hungry files like movies and mp3's or mp4's.

Using Veto command has help me a lot and keep me at ease knowing my network will be safe from destructions.


Mabuhay, Philippines.