We have spent so much time talking about new file systems this summer that it only seems fair to give a bit of space to NFS, the Network File System that Sun first gave us about 20 years ago. Because ...

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 ...

I took the time over the weekend to set up an NFS server. After following some guides NFSv4 is humming along nicely -- I can mount the drives, see the contents, copy what I want. <BR><BR>The one ...

For a recent project, I built a completely virtualized vSphere lab. I already had to have a Windows 2008 R2 server in the lab for DNS/AD and I was trying to minimize the number of virtual machines in ...

In the early 1980s, Motorola introduced the first commercial mobile phones. They were huge, heavy, cost thousands of dollars, and ran on an analog network called AMPS that was bandwidth-hungry and ...

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 ...