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Tagged with file-sharing filesystems
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How to properly archive files avoiding very long file path
We have some network shares and I daily receive support calls from users due to file paths which are too long.
I recommend to use short folder names and avoid to deeply nest them, but my users always ...
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Risk of FreeNAS as Virtual File Server
There is much debate as to whether FreeNAS can be run as a virtual machine.
The official position is that yes, but there is additional configuration required.
If I cannot guarantee that I can follow ...
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real time sync for file sharing servers [closed]
I run a file sharing site, which is quickly growing in popularity.
Right now my web app is on AWS elastic beanstalk so of course scales up beautifully, however my files are currently all served from ...
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Controlling file naming pattern conventions on a file share
We have a shared folder on a server, where sales managers ought to save incoming requests, invoices and other documents. Different types of documents separated by folders. Before now managers name ...
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Some users unable to see files that others can see
I have a file server running on Windows Server 2008 R2 in our domain that houses files created by an application and then moved to a folder available as a share to some users here.
Users who use this ...
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Create a 'GitHub' style index page for files/folder on a fileserver [closed]
My workplace doesn't have a easy to use document management system, and I have no chance in building or installing one. Right now, people just throw files on a shared fileserver, where search doesn't ...
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Access files/ folders remotely by authentication via browser/ web [closed]
We have some requirements where we want to allow our clients/ users to download files/ folders from our file server via browser/ web.
We have a many different directories created on our file server ...
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Vagrant shared folder and file change events
I have ubuntu virtual machine that I'm accessing through Vagrant.
On my host (Mac OSX), there is a folder with couple of files, that I share to virtual machine. In that virtual machine, I want to use ...
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VxFS on both Solaris and RHEL?
I'd like to know if VxFS could be used in order to share a volume ( on a SAN mounted using FC) between a RHEL (5 or 6) and Solaris (11) host ?
What I'm trying to achive is to shared a volume (from a ...
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Does this exist? Create virtual file shares with arbitrary folders
I'd like to be able to advertise shares to the network that are in some sense virtual, in that they don't correspond directly to physical folders on a filesystem.
The application would be to offer a ...
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Does the number of files slow down the server? [closed]
Having numerous files will obviously slow down the OS; but how much this problem is serious? Consider that the files have been well distributed over multi-level folders. Does still the number of files ...
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NTFS allow Read/Write/Modify, but not Copy
Is it possible to allow users to modify and read files/folders but not copy them to other locations?
Problem is I have a folder that users need to read and modify files in, but I don't want them ...
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Is there away to get around shared folder resource limits?
We have a situation where we need to share out a shared folder on a PC running WinXP to more than 10 users. Apparently there is a limit to the number of connections for a shared folder(?).
To add a ...
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Share a File on Server without giving rights to users such that the file cant be copied?
I am using Windows 2003 server as OS, is there any option to give users only Read and Write access. I don't want users to copy the file or move the file or attach the file in any mail. As the file is ...
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Filesystem to share projects across platforms
We do very cross-platform development, so it's not strange to see boxes with Linux and 2 or 3 versions of Windows.
So far I have a SVN working copy of our projects in each platform, which becomes ...
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