The very purpose of your NAS is to share files between people and devices. A NAS can surely work as a central storage unit, but to make it live its full purpose, you will have to give it a way to talk ...

Starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, Microsoft made some big changes to how SMB shares work on Windows machines. To provide enhanced security, these shares now require SMB signing and for most ...

With Mac OS X 10.3, Apple made the Mac a full citizen on Windows networks. For many Mac users, the biggest advantage of this move was the ability to connect to shared volumes on Windows computers (and ...

An ongoing problem through recent versions of Mac OS X is a recurring "Error -50" message (with failure to connect) when attempting to mount SMB shares over a local ...

I just noticed my OS X Macs can't "see" SMB shares with names longer than 12 characters.<BR><BR>Example: <BR><BR>I use the "Connect to Server" box to find a smb server (smb://servername). When I am ...

I have all the appropriate permissions, because if I click on the server and drill down into any of these 3 shares, I can always read/write the contents, any time, without fail. The problem is with ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Server Message Block, or SMB for short, is a popular way to share ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

One of the most popular questions long-time Linux users have been asked is, “How do I create a network share that Windows can see?“, and it’s for good reason. Creating a network share in Linux is a ...

A few people have noticed a problem in Snow Leopard where depending on the view being used, the Finder may not properly manage files on shared SMB resources. Specifically, when in column view in the ...