I've built and used countless systems, powered by both Linux and Windows, but I've usually resorted to Network File System (NFS) for the majority of my Unix-based installations. Once I started messing ...

I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastifile, the pioneer of enterprise-grade, scalable file storage for the public cloud, today announced that the Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1 storage protocol ...