Tag: SMB

A while back, Google started offering inexpensive storage upgrades for Google Docs storage. Now, users with a domain set up on Google Apps can purchase additional storage, too. The change means you can boost your disk space to 20GB for a paltry $5 per year, or a whopping 1TB for $256 per year (which works out to about $22 per month). That's a very reasonable price for additional cloud storage, ...

Want a nice, simple way to access files on your Android smartphone over a wireless network? Check out Samba Filesharing, an easy-to-configure app which lets you browse your SD card contents in your favorite desktop file manager. After you install the app, launch it and create a password -- the default username is SDCARD, though you can change that if you wish. Once your changes have been made, ...

2010 has come to a close, and that means it's time for us to kill what little remains of your final Friday productivity with a look back at some of our best Time Wasters. Grab your mouse and keep your eyes peeled for the boss, it's time to fire up some casual gaming goodness in your Web browser! Each screenshot is linked directly to the game pictured -- so when you see something which catches ...

With 30 million users in 74 countries -- amassed in just over a year -- Microsoft Security Essentials' rise to popularity has been nothing short of meteoric. So it really didn't come as a surprise last month when people were overjoyed at news from the Microsoft SMB Community Blog: Security Essentials was about to become free for use in small business settings. The change took place yesterday, ...

One tool I didn't list on my rundown of free Windows programs for small and home businesses was an in-out board. It's nice to have a central location where you can see what your co-workers are up to at a glance, and those old magnetic whiteboards just don't cut it. We've been looking for something like EIOBoard, only free. Tabzon might just be the solution. It's not as full featured as some ...

One gripe against XP Mode for Windows 7 is that it required hardware-assisted virtualization support. In many cases, it was difficult to tell whether or not a system's hardware was up to snuff -- so Microsoft offered up a free download to help administrators and find out (called HAV detection tool). Now, however, the Windows Team has announced that hardware virtualization is no longer an ...

Just because it's relatively quiet on Patch Tuesday doesn't mean the one bulletin that was released should be ignored. Microsoft today issued MS09-001 to address a critical vulnerability in the SMB protocol that could allow an attacker free reign to cause havoc via the NetBIOS ports (139 and 445). According to Microsoft, "an attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could install ...