Questions tagged [file-sharing]
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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Most secure way to implement a file server to avoid ransomware
Hi I'm looking to migrate several large file servers off of windows 2012. Servers are mainly just serving flat .pdf, word files, on internal network mainly running windows 10 clients . I am strongly ...
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Can I connect computers between two routers?
Sorry in advance, I'm not a big networking guy. The best way to illustrate what I'm asking is to show it in this diagram:
I need to be able to establish file sharing on Windows from "Laptop" to "PC-1"...
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How to allow file to be executed but don't allow user to view folder content in File Explorer?
I have a folder of executables that users have read and execute permissions on. They also have a link on their desktop to run them. Is there anyway to still allow them to execute these files but not ...
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Considering alternatives to traditional on-prem fileserver
I am considering alternative solutions for managing a smallish fileserver. Currently I look after (amongst other things) several small MS-Windows fileservers - in total around 4Tb of data supporting ...
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Nginx - enable download of multimedia file instead of streaming?
I am trying to enable multimedia (Mp3 and Mp4) file downloads on my newly setupped nginx/1.17.6 using HTTP2 server but the file started streaming instead of downloading. Here is my nginx.conf file:
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Set Azure FileShare Size - ARM Template
I'm looking for a way to set the quota size (ex, 100gb) for the file share I am deploying using Azure ARM Templates. As of now when I deploy it defaults to 5TB which is not ideal. Ideally I would just ...
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One time password sharing over local network [closed]
I am responsible for the security of a company where passwords are currently stored locally with a password manager, but if another employee needs a password, they are shared via cloud based programs ...
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No access over firewall to shared folder on clustered fileserver, but access to shares on a node server works
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We have new a Windows Failover Cluster installed and are running a clustered file server on it that hosts file shares.
We need to access these shares through a firewall from ...
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How can I specific Windows sharing folder port?
I have a NAS server(IP: 192.168.0.101) in my studio, and I mapped it's 137/138/139/445 port to my Internet IP(2.2.2.2) by router. The correspondence is:
192.168.0.101:137 <=> 2.2.2.2:30137
192.168....
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Separate Website from Files?
I'm not sure if this belongs here on Server Fault or if it belongs over on Software Engineering, but as this most likely deals heavily with the server side of hosting my website and related files, I ...
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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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How to mount with SAMBA and respect symlinks
I am mounting a directory, e.g., /home/docs/ from PCserver to PCclient using the SAMBA share in Linux. Both computers are in Linux (Ubuntu).
I perform sudo mount -f cifs with the necessary parameters, ...
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Symlinks look like regular files on samba shares
Symlinks on my samba share aren't behaving the way I want them to – specifically, the links look like duplicate regular files to the client machine. This used to work (i.e. symlinks on the server ...
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Shared folder on Linux
how do I create a truly shared folder on a Linux server? I want for the members of a project team to be able to read and write every file as if they were their own, regardless of whether they copied ...
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Failed downloading file. Nginx aio read /path/to/file failed (22: Invalid argument)
On our site we added the ability to download our video files. We use nginx on our servers.
The weird issue is now that sometimes files are downloadable and sometimes not.
The error we receive in the ...
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