Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of practical uses for a personal server, both at home and for a business. You can use them to network local computers, provide communal storage, host email, and a variety of other ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making major changes to how SMB compression operates in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The enhancements will particularly interest IT admins and users in client-server environments.

With SMB version 2.1, running on Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Microsoft has tuned the oplocks feature so that it works better in situations where a single application might generate multiple opens to ...

Microsoft is simplifying how you’ll connect to Windows file servers over the internet. It’s time to say goodbye to the VPN. Change is afoot: The internet is moving away from the venerable TCP protocol ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 KB5101684 preview update delivers 42 fixes for Intune, SMB, File Explorer, Search, Windows Hello, and more.