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

From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

The very purpose of your NAS is to share files between people and devices. A NAS can surely work as a central storage unit, but to make it live its full purpose, you will have to give it a way to talk ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastifile, the pioneer of enterprise-grade, scalable file storage for the public cloud, today announced that the Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1 storage protocol ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...