Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you're running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now, ...

While people often think of the Internet as an immaterial object, the data that makes up the Internet is actually stored at a very physical location: data servers. Businesses sometimes operate their ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

IPFS isn’t exactly a well-known technology yet, even among many in the Valley, but it’s quickly spreading by word of mouth among folks in the open-source community. Many are excited by its potential ...

A file sharing system from Oracle that is based on the Oracle Database. It is designed to consolidate all the file servers in the enterprise and allows files to be accessed from a Web browser or ...

To share files and printers on a network, Microsoft Windows uses Server Message Block -- also called Common Internet File System -- a protocol that streamlines communication between computers. Mac OS ...

Email programs can "attach a file" to a message, which means any file (document, image, program, etc.) can be transmitted along with the text message. This is the simplest way to send a file via the ...

There are two standard ways to transmit files over the Internet. The first is to use the HTTP POST verb to transmit files (or just plain data) to a receptor, which then saves them on the remote server ...

Music, videos and games could soon be swapped between cellphones using a mobile file-sharing network developed by phone maker Nokia. Lorant Farkas and colleagues, at the Nokia Research Center in ...