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

Starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, Microsoft made some big changes to how SMB shares work on Windows machines. To provide enhanced security, these shares now require SMB signing and for most ...

I just noticed my OS X Macs can't "see" SMB shares with names longer than 12 characters.<BR><BR>Example: <BR><BR>I use the "Connect to Server" box to find a smb server (smb://servername). When I am ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most popular questions long-time Linux users have been asked is, “How do I create a network share that Windows can see?“, and it’s for good reason. Creating a network share in Linux is a ...

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 ...