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, ...

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 ...

What are the pros and cons of each method?<BR><BR>From my own experience, WebDAV is much slower than the other two, while FTP has limited integration with Windows (it can't be mounted as a drive ...

There are two situations in which Mac OS X 10.2.6 seems incapable of reliably generating a creation date for various files. Files created on a Windows machine and mounted via SMB (previously noted on ...

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 ...

Take advantage of Azure Files in your .Net applications to access managed, secure, SMB file shares in the Microsoft Azure cloud Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform provides interoperable cloud ...