Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...

For a recent project, I built a completely virtualized vSphere lab. I already had to have a Windows 2008 R2 server in the lab for DNS/AD and I was trying to minimize the number of virtual machines in ...

This is regarding a file server on domain joined Windows Server 2016 with NFS shares set up. Permissions are for All Machines with read/write access. No server authentication is used. Allow unmapped ...

Microsoft has forged a deal with a University of Michigan research unit to create an open-source version of the NFS (Network File System) version 4 protocol that will work with Windows. Microsoft ...

When you need to share data files between Windows and Unix platforms, you can turn to Network File System (NFS). With NFS, any client can access remote network resources as if they were in the ...

While working on an article about using vRealize Log Insight's (vRLI) built-in archiving utility, I needed an NFS server to act as its archive repository. I have a Windows Server 2012 in my lab and ...

Despite existing in an era where cloud storage has largely taken over as the primary choice for casual file sharing, transferring files over your local network is still essential for any home with ...

To be honest I didn't even know what the acronym stood for or that the protocol existed before I bought a popcorn hour media player. Turns out the PCH-C200 streams video twice as fast over NFS than ...