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.

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 ...

Microsoft's proprietary protocol, Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS), started with a good idea. It would enable hardware vendors to add networking support to USB devices without ...

Who needs a custom NAS OS or a web-based GUI when command-line NAS software is so easy to configure? In a recent letter to the editor, I was contacted by a reader who enjoyed my "Papa's Got a Brand ...

Microsoft has forged a deal with a University of Michigan research unit to create an open-source version of the NFS (Network File System) version 4 protocol that will work with Windows. Microsoft ...

To be honest I didn't even know what the acronym stood for or that the protocol existed before I bought a popcorn hour media player. Turns out the PCH-C200 streams video twice as fast over NFS than ...