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, ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

You can run Android apps on Chromebooks. You can run Linux programs on Chromebooks. Heck, you can even run Windows programs on Chromebooks. But one thing you couldn't do natively on a Chromebook is ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that affected the performance of large file copying over Server Message Block (SMB) protocol with the Windows 11 2022 update. The bug was addressed with the KB5022913 ...

I just upgraded my server, workstation and switch to gigabit. For large files it's great, i'm hitting 40MB/sec (both machines only have 32bit pci). <BR><BR>On small files or anything operating on a ...

Anyway, SMB 2.0 brings a number of improvements. It boasts lower overhead by permitting multiple requests to be bundled into a single packet, it includes support for much larger buffers and it permits ...

One of the big new additions to the Files app in iOS 13 is the ability to connect to a server via SMB. In the initial iOS 13 beta, attempting such a connection resulted in an error, but in iOS 13 beta ...