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Hi there I am a novice Linux user and am just trying it out - I am very impressed but also very frustrated. I have loaded Mandrake 8 on a box and have configured Samba for Windows pc's use this as a backup data server. Works wonderfully - but our campus administrators say that the current version of Samba presents a security risk(2.0.7) and should be upgraded. Thought this was simple but

Hi there I'm a newbie and have the following problem : Have set up samba 2.2.3a-6 on Debian 3. Thought I could have this server as file/asset management server. Put asset management software on a share and have a couple of test pc's access this share. They try to execute the file on this share that collects data locally and then puts this information on a subdirectory of the share