Linux File Server is a centralised or multiple file server software running on a Linux system. It provides file connectivity, access and sharing with serveral different kinds of user desktop systems (Windows PC, Mac, Linux), some of them provides network printing feature as well.
- Samba is a file server software providing file and print connectivity to other Windows systems on the network;
- Netatalk is a file server software providing file and print services for Apple clients;
- NFS is a file server software providing file services to UNIX/Linux clients.
- FTP is a internet file server software prodivind file uploading/downloading to FTP clients on interent.
- rsync provides UNIX remote file synchorsation.
- CUPS is UNIX network printing system for UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X clients.
- and others.