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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite existing in an era where cloud storage has largely taken over as the primary choice for casual file sharing, transferring files over your local network is still essential for any home with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Windows is usually a presence in most computing environments, and UNIX administrators likely will be forced to use resources in Windows networks from time to time. Although many are familiar ...

SMB over QUIC in Windows Server: What you need to know Your email has been sent Change is afoot: The internet is moving away from the venerable TCP protocol that’s been its foundation since the very ...

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 ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that affected the performance of large file copying over Server Message Block (SMB) protocol with the Windows 11 2022 update. The bug was addressed with the KB5022913 ...