If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

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 ...

Fresh install of Win2k3 R2.<BR><BR>Fired up the NFS server, shared out a volume as NFS, went to our Linux file server, mounted the volume, fired off rsync -- heart ache.<BR><BR>All of the file writes ...

I've set up quite a few file servers using Linux in my day, and although it's not particularly difficult, I've often thought that there should be a better way to do it. The folks at the OpenFiler ...

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.

Anyone have experience with Windows-based NAS appliances and NFS? I'm looking at NAS solutions for a setup that will have 20 or so Linux servers pointing to an NFS share. Mainly web servers and a ...

Parallel reads and writes across multiple servers. Parallel NFSv4.2 with FlexFiles splits file data across multiple servers, allowing clients to access data in parallel. When coupled with N-Connect, ...