From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

For many years we've run a file server on Solaris 10 serving files to other Unix/Linux boxes over NFS and Windows clients and servers via Samba. This server is now coming up for replacement and I'm ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...

NoPorts technology eliminates the need for open ports, delivering secure, seamless SMB/CIFS access over any network, while making endpoints invisible to port scans and vulnerability exploits SAN JOSE, ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

The upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion and Lion Server dramatically simplifies file sharing, removing official support for FTP and Sun's NFS file sharing protocols while adding a new WebDAV option ...

Chrome OS is gaining better native support for SMB file sharing, one of the most common Windows file server protocols. As announced on Google+ by François Beaufort, the latest Canary builds of Chrome ...