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 ...

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, ...

How to easily open files with sudo privileges in the GNOME File Manager Your email has been sent Not all Linux file managers are created equal. Some file managers have more bells and whistles than the ...

What are the pros and cons of each method?<BR><BR>From my own experience, WebDAV is much slower than the other two, while FTP has limited integration with Windows (it can't be mounted as a drive ...

There are two situations in which Mac OS X 10.2.6 seems incapable of reliably generating a creation date for various files. Files created on a Windows machine and mounted via SMB (previously noted on ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

The only way the client can be sure that the cached file data hasn’t been changed is if the data gets locked out from writes by other clients. So the client places an “opportunistic lock” on the file, ...

Three methods for transferring files to and from your Android tablet Your email has been sent If your Android tablet doesn't have a USB port, you can still easily transfer your files to and from a PC.

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 ...