There's some talk where I am about the possibility of replacing a file server which is currently mounting SAN storage provided by our NetApp appliance over fiber, with just serving the files directly ...

Among the applications most likely impaired by file server centralization are Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, which use Microsoft’s Common Internet File System (CIFS) file sharing protocol, as well as ...

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...