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, ...

E-mail and the Mazda Miata are both great examples of successful products, but they share a similar weakness: neither can carry much baggage. If you want to carry two people in a Miata, you’re good.

When it comes to sharing files across different machines, there are two protocols that most home labbers and tinkerers consider first: NFS and SMB. Both get the job done, but they serve different ...

The very purpose of your NAS is to share files between people and devices. A NAS can surely work as a central storage unit, but to make it live its full purpose, you will have to give it a way to talk ...

To wirelessly share files between Mac and Windows without any third-party app, connect both machines to the same Wi-Fi network. On Windows, enable file sharing via Control Panel > Network and Internet ...

Microsoft has finally addressed a known issue causing significant performance hits when copying large files over SMB after installing the Windows 11 2022 update. The bug was fixed with the KB5022913 ...

I've recently been getting along with a NAS project and been trying to solve utterly abysmal Samba transfer speeds. The NAS is running FreeBSD 10.2 and Samba 3.6. The Mac is a 2015 Macbook Pro Retina ...

One of the more common things people need to do is transfer files from their mobile device or tablet to their desktop. Sometimes it’s a photo, sometimes it’s a song, and many other times it’s some ...

I've got a webserver farm (IIS on Windows Server 2012 R2) that has a NetApp filer running CDOT 8.3.1 serving it, among other things, a large content library - over 50TB of images and growing. The data ...