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 ...

A Raspberry Pi can be a fantastic low-power computer or server, but moving files between a Pi and your other devices over a network isn't straightforward. Thankfully, it only takes a few steps to set ...

I've built and used countless systems, powered by both Linux and Windows, but I've usually resorted to Network File System (NFS) for the majority of my Unix-based installations. Once I started messing ...

NFS and CIFS are the most common file systems used in NAS. These file-sharing protocols enable a client system to view and access files and directories stored on a remote server or a PC. They provide ...

VSAN File Service's initial release only supported network file systems; but the vSphere 7 Update 1 introduced SMB file sharing for Windows. With both NFS and SMB support, you can efficiently transfer ...

What, no mention of SCP or SFTP? Prog, do you intend to share on a LAN or over the internet? This would be the deal breaker for me... sharing over the internet with the protocols you listed would not ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

CloudCasa announced the latest enhancements to its CloudCasa platform, adding support for accessing backup storage using SMB (Server Message Block) file-sharing protocol and support for ...

What are the pros and cons of each method? From my own experience, WebDAV is much slower than the other two, while FTP has limited integration with Windows (it can't be mounted as a drive letter and ...