For sharing files between machines over a home network, it became essential for me to choose a consistent and relevant storage protocol rather than focusing solely on transfer speeds. Many home ...

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 ...

With Mac OS X 10.3, Apple made the Mac a full citizen on Windows networks. For many Mac users, the biggest advantage of this move was the ability to connect to shared volumes on Windows computers (and ...

Is it just me, or do all SMB shares,regardless of the server platform, mount on OS X with the share name in all CAPS? I just realized that no matter what a shared folder's name is locally on the ...

I have all the appropriate permissions, because if I click on the server and drill down into any of these 3 shares, I can always read/write the contents, any time, without fail. The problem is with ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Server Message Block, or SMB for short, is a popular way to share ...

An ongoing problem through recent versions of Mac OS X is a recurring "Error -50" message (with failure to connect) when attempting to mount SMB shares over a local ...

Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since ...

I’ve been working with Linux since 1997, and it’s been a rare occasion that I don’t take advantage in one way or another of Samba file sharing. With Samba, I can easily create and manage shares that ...