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A mechanism for allowing and mediating access to files for non-local users and programs. Such mechanisms are either built on top of local filesystems or seamlessly integrated into distributed filesystems. Common examples of file sharing mechanisms include CIFS (SMB, DFS), NFS, GlusterFS, Lustre.

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RDP Read Only Local Drive

I need an auditor to be able to access the server's file system and be able to run programs on their local computer without the ability to save/copy the data. At the moment, the best solution we have ...
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Unable to write to Windows file share "not enough space" yet drive has 10Gb free

I've got a system running Windows Server 2016 Standard. It's got multiple file shares running from a common drive. Periodically, I get an error when trying to save data to a file share on that drive. &...
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Create a Group RW-access for a KVM shared folder via virtiofs on Ubuntu Server 22

I have a folder /common on an Ubuntu Server 22 host which is RW accessible by all users in group users i.e. user alice (with uid 1000) is a member of users (with gid 12345) and has fuull RW access to /...
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How to configure a Windows Server 2022 machine to allow file sharing with a DNS alias

Machines on my company's network can access file shares on a Windows Server 2022 system using the FQDN, but they can't access them using a DNS alias. I reviewed How to configure a Windows machine to ...
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Windows NTFS filesystem - user cannot access file using Administrators group permissions

There is a shared folder on the computer running Windows 2012R2 with a NTFS filesystem. There is a local User X who is part of the local Group Administrators on the computer. The Shared folder is ...
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Migrating 9 virtual machines to 1 server or pc

I have a build system set up which has 5 pcs and that has a total of 9 virtual machines using Hyper-V. I want to update this infrastructure and cut out the need for 5 physical pcs. Is there a way to ...
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Emulate local directory as network drive

Is there a way to map a local directory in Windows 10 as a network drive? I want to map C:\datastore as if it were \\datastore . Although there is plenty of information on mapping a network drive to ...
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ACL permissions not syncing with LDAP

Have a MacStudio running system 13.3.1 set up as a file server. It is bound to an Open Directory server. Using TinkerTool as a GUI to set/update permissions of the shared files/folders. Everything ...
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Accessing Windows file server by alias name

What could be the possible problems with accessing a Windows file server shares using a DNS CNAME instead of the actual computer name? The file server is joined to an Active Directory domain, but is ...
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Migrating file server with Windows Deduplication by switching disk

I'm migrating a bunch of large file servers to new Windows VMs as a way of updating the OS, planning on switching the virtual disks over and exporting/importing the lanman share registry and retaining ...
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Samba server - single user connection limit

Is there a limitation for samba server to allow multiple connection's from single user? (Multiple PC's connecting to same samba server with same account) User was created through smbpasswd -a [...
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Failover all cluster roles at once

I'm setting up a failover cluster on Azure 2019 VMs. I've got to set up both a file server and a generic service. Ideally I'd like to always move them both to the same node rather than having to do ...
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Unzipping to general file share is slow on azure shared disk. Clustered windows server 2019

I have a file share server running on an azure VM cluster. Copying already existing files to the file share gets really good speed. Averaging about 60 MBps. So if I copy a file from a local machine ...
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I'm trying to get Windows explorer to show non Windows based computers in the Network folder

For some reason my Windows machine has stopped showing non-Windows computers in the Network folder. It's Windows 10 22H2 19045. It does show other Windows computers. I can set up shares to folders in ...
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Windows-10 shared folder permission

We have a small office LAN with a few Windows 10 PCs (without server). One PC has a shared folder which various users create files for sharing. For various reasons some created files are sometimes ...
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