Linux Magazine | February 2001 | FEATURES | Double Agents Of course, Linux is good for a lot more than just serving up Web pages -- a Linux box running SAMBA makes a better SMB-based file and print server for Windows clients than native Windows servers do. We've all heard stories of system administrators who snuck a Linux server running SAMBA into a Windows network, and the only thing users noticed was that the file server seemed to be faster and never crashed any more.