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, ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

Chrome OS 70 will include native support for SMB file shares (spotted by Paul Thurrott), giving it built-in access to files stored on Windows servers. With this, Chrome OS users can add SMB file ...

I just upgraded my server, workstation and switch to gigabit. For large files it's great, i'm hitting 40MB/sec (both machines only have 32bit pci). <BR><BR>On small files or anything operating on a ...

With the release of Windows server 2012, Microsoft extended the capability of its flagship operating system by including a number of new storage features that enable Windows to provide the ...

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 ...

One of the big new additions to the Files app in iOS 13 is the ability to connect to a server via SMB. In the initial iOS 13 beta, attempting such a connection resulted in an error, but in iOS 13 beta ...

Sometimes you have no other choice but to share a large document from your Mac to a PC over a network. Here's how to get file sharing working between macOS Tahoe and Windows. Apple's ecosystem is a ...