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NFS vs SMB: Which should you use for local file sharing?

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 ...
Computer Weekly

NFS vs SMB vs CIFS: File storage protocols defined

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 ...
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NAS file sharing: Why I use both NFS and SMB protocols

When configuring your network-attached storage (NAS) for sending and receiving files from clients, several protocols are available. The two most common are Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File ...
Ars Technica

Finder 13.3 Can't Open Moved File on SMB Share

I'm the only Mac user at my Active-Directory-centric office, and I've stumbled upon a weird bug since migrating from my mid-2014 MBP/macOS 10.14.6 to my 2023 MBP running macOS 13.3: If I create a ...
Ars Technica

Files & Folders locking issues while using SMB

I will be rolling out Snow Leopard once I figure out what is going on with this issue.<BR><BR>In 10.6.1 after mapping a SMB network share I access a folder and can right click and make a folder ...
Bleeping Computer

Nearly One Million Systems Provide "Guest" SMB Access, Most Are Linux

There are 2,306,820 devices connected to the Internet at the moment that feature open ports for SMB services, the same protocol that was used to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with the ...