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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Windows 10 Pro Sharing/Samba Speed Throttling?
Does Windows 10 Pro file sharing (aka Samba) throttle its speed? Mine seems to cap out at exactly 25 megabytes per second.
My Windows 10 Pro machine is directly connected (via crossover cable) to a ...
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IIS Virtual Directory maximum number of connections to Windows share
**Disclaimer. I'm a developer, largely ignorant on what actually happens with virtual directories and such.
A recent outage was explained away as too many connections to a Windows file share, and it ...
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Is there a shiny way to make Windows shares web accessible?
I'm new here, and I hope this isn't too much of a shopping question.
I'm the under-qualified director of technology at a small college that may be acquired by a larger school. We have Office 365 ...
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Mac OS X 10.8 Server File Sharing is strangely slow
I work in a small company as a web designer/developer and part of my job is server administration. I am not a professional administrator and most of my knowledge I pick up while working.
So, the ...
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File and Folder sharing stopped working Windows 2008 R2
Our network as a Win 2008 R2 machine. File/Folder shares have been working on this machine since we installed it. A few days ago, sharing just stopped.
If we use Explorer to view the server using ...
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Is there an alternative to Samba when it comes to sharing folders between Linux and Windows systems? [closed]
Let's assume I have two workstations. Workstation A is a Debian GNU/Linux based system with a bandwidth of approximately 100 MBit/s (up). Workstation B is a Microsoft Windows 7 based system with a ...
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Web-based file manager like File Thingie, but for S3?
At work, we use a little PHP script called File Thingie, which is a web-based file manager. Basically, an FTP replacement. It allows users to upload and download files, and most importantly, it has a ...
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Benchmarking a file server
I'm working on building a new file server... a simple Windows Server box with a few terabytes of disk space to share on the LAN. Pain for current hard drive prices aside :( -- I would like to get ...
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Connecting to Server 2008 shares fails
(This has started to get quite lengthy, but hopefully will provide a summary of things to try for anyone else that's bumped into this issue - it's not a simple one-size-fits-all solution by the looks ...
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MS Word reports files read-only on Win Server 2003 file server
I'm not a sysadmin, but I play one on TV: I'm trying to fix a problem for my mom's tiny non-profit company's server. I set up a Windows Server 2003 machine as a domain controller and file server. ...
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How can a rename a share on Windows Server 2003?
We would like to rename a share - not the folder, just the name of the Share itself - on a Windows 2003 Server. If I right-click on the folder name and go to the properties dialog, I can see the share ...
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Granting access to user's file store without their knowledge or consent [closed]
As a system administrator, if you were asked to facilitate access to your users' file store so that a director could look at what types of files are being stored, what would your response be?
The ...
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Which filesystem do you use and recommend for file servers? [closed]
I am planning to install a networked filesystem in my corporation to provide a global file storage to employees, but there are many choices today (NFS, AFS, Coda, Samba, ...) and I'm looking for ...
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Image Management System with Different Levels of Access
I work in the graphics department for a real estate brokerage, and we deal with a lot of photos. Agents take the photos, upload them to me, I touch up and standardize the photos, then I add them to ...
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Choosing online free drive storage (for sharing spreadsheets) [closed]
I'm considering using some free web file space hosting service. Do you have any experience with them? I would particularly like to share Excel files, so people will be able to work on them ...
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Access Solaris folder from Windows without SAMBA
How can I make Solaris folder accessible from Windows without Samba?
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Internet Sharing solution
I have a client that is a business. The people at this business are not in anyway computer savvy. I was asked to make a file server for them. This server will need to have four shares with a ...
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Is there a Multiple User login method when remoted into a Window 2008 R2 Server?
I have configured a Windows 2008 R2 Server for many users to connect to - but right now I have them all logging in with one account which is bound to our domain. The purpose of this server is for ...
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ActiveDirectory: What kind of disruption should I expect when modifying attributes for 15k users?
We are modifying all the displayName attributes on our AD.
We a slightly modified version of Microsoft's KB script. Our AD is mostly used as a backend for a NAS-based file sharing.
Do you think it'...
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Replace User within Active Directory File Server Share
I have a file server role utilizing an Active Directory Domain on Windows Server 2012 and I'm attempting to replace one User Object with another User Object across all existing file server share ACLs.
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Windows network shares organization
I would like to have some feedback about the best practices you use to publish your network share.
Now, we have on our file server :
one named directory for each of our user, which is backed up ...
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Large Fileserver on a HyperV VM - Best Practice
We are in the process of setting up a new Hyper-V host to replace our existing failing Windows 2003 R2 server.
The new Host is running Windows 2008 R2 and inside that we will be running a few Virtual ...
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Security permissions for remote shared folders
I have two servers running Windows Server 2003, and I want copy files from one server (A), programmatically with a windows service running under the Local System account, to a shared folder on the ...
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Solution to easily share large files with non-tech-savvy users?
We've got a server setup at work which we'd like to use to exchange large files with known clients easily. We're looking into software to facilitate this, but somewhow typing "large file hosting" into ...
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How can I create a network drive that works over the Internet?
I have a company that needs to share files between 2 locations. Both locations are using Mac computers only. How do I create something that is equivalent to a network drive that can be accessed via ...
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More Windows Filesharing Woes
This has been bugging me now. I'm in the process of converting a standalone fileserver that was not joined to our domain into using AD Groups\Users for the file shares. This fileserver used to use ...
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Can't enable Windows XP file sharing
The "sharing and security" option in the right-click context menu on a folder is no longer there. The File and Print sharing option is "installed" and turned on in the TCP/IP properties, but the ...
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Windows Alert Shared Network Drive Issue
I am trying to connect to a network drive and I am getting this MS Windows alert saying
"Not enough server storage is available to process this command."
What does this mean?
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Windows 10 Pro workstation can no longer access Synology File Share
Note that I have also cross posted this to Synology forums. I'm posting here because I'm not sure if the problem is with Windows or with the Synology server:
Background
Dozens of workstations with ...
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Hyper-V 2016 with physical RAID Disk for Files: pass through or discrete device assignment or what?
I've installed a new physical server with Hyper-V Core 2016 on it. I got "two" drives on the physical machine:
NVMe (M.2 2280 Samsung 960 Pro) with two partition:
C:\ = 80 GB = for the physical ...
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Use a shared vhdx as shared drive
I have a Windows Cluster made up of two nodes connected via SAS to a storage array. I have two virtual machines configured with their hard disks (vhdx) on the shared storage. They are up and running ...
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Windows Server Auditing Capabilities
I was curious if it were possible to audit a file share on windows server 2012 for a copy. How can one differentiate a copied file rather than a read file based on the events they send to the event ...
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Why single file transfer is not faster than 50MB/s over Gigabit LAN?
I ran some tests on our gigabit network.
When I transfer a big file (10GB) from a windows 7 computer to another, the troughtput never exceed 50Mb (it start at 80MB/s for one second then slows down to ...
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Windows Server 2003 AD Folder Replication
I have a folder on my Windows 2003 Server AD machine that is shared out to clients at Location A.
The people in Location B are currently mounting this folder across a network link. The problem is of ...
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Sharing apache's error_log with other users (non-root)
I've got other users on my linux system - how can I 'share' the system's error_log so its readable by other users on the system?
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10.5 clients cannot connect via AFP to OS X 10.4.11 server
Server : xServe running 10.4.11
Login with AFP is successful with
Clients:
all 10.6.x
all 10.4.x
Login fails ( or more accurately never produces a login dialog window,
just get a "Connecting to ...
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Intermittent connection to Windows 7 shared folder from Windows XP workstations
I maintain a small network for an accounting office. My client has a Windows 7 Professional server which is sharing Internet access and sharing a folder to 2 Windows 7 workstations and 2 Windows XP ...
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Share a File on Server without giving rights to users such that the file cant be copied?
I am using Windows 2003 server as OS, is there any option to give users only Read and Write access. I don't want users to copy the file or move the file or attach the file in any mail. As the file is ...
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Compare sharepoint vs box.net? [closed]
I would like as unbiased opinion as possible on costs, maintenance and features. Also what if you already have some sharepoint sites up, does it make sense to expand the sharepoint installation rather ...
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PDC computer crash & reinstall problem
Yesterday i was assigned to reinstall a primary domain controller because the computer just died. Honestly, i have no experience on it, but i managed to reinstall and configure the new Win2K3 ...
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Is it possible to host a Windows share that can be accessed solely by server name? (e.g. \\server\file.txt)
DISCLAIMER: I'm simply looking for convenience here. I know that this isn't a big improvement but it's a nice to have.
There are a number of really useful tools that we host on a file share that ...
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Can I servc static files with squid?
I have a set of files which doesn't change very often. I am wondering if it is possible to avoid an additional installation of nginx or similar, if these files would be added to squid as "static" ...
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Robocopy script copied permissions/subfolders everything but NOT shares
I ran this command on my new server:
ROBOCOPY "\\oldserver\e$\folder" "e:\folder\" /COPYALL /SEC /MIR /LOG:logs.txt
It copies all permission and mirrored my folder but later I realized that shares ...
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Transparent user migration to a new file server - just changing DNS?
So, file server migration.
I've robocopied everything over and kept folder permissions intact, I have recreated the shared.
My question is I need a transparent way of switching all the users from ...
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Multi Client Dropbox Like Service on AWS
We currently have around 15 dropbox accounts which multiple clients use to send files to our office. This is extremely unmanageable from an administrative standpoint and also very inefficient from a ...
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Hyper-V 2012 R2 and File shares
I currently have a 2008 R2 hyper-v cluster but I am going to be building a new 2012 R2 failover hyper-v 2012 r2 cluster in the next few weeks and wanted to get some opinions on running a large file ...
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OwnCloud - Slow Transfer Rates - Unsolved Bug?
I recently setup an OwnCloud server. However, after installing the Sync Client I get very slow transfer rates. I might do 1GB a day. Is this just an issue with WEBDav protocol?
I've read that there ...
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How to find which server is sending files to my shared folder
I have a server where is shared folder e.g. shared_folder.
Another server in the same domain is sending files into this folder (it is probably a scheduled task)
unknown_server -> copy files -> ...
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how can i get list of created and deleted files on the server?
i have a image sharing website , users log and upload image
last night i've lost about 30 newly-consecutive uploaded images ... i mean they have been uploaded ... apparently ... they are in the ...
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Improve file transfer speed between Windows PCs and servers [closed]
I've setup a server which I've connected to multiple PCs in my workplace. Sadly, data transfer speeds are at max 3 MB/sec per connection which works out slow for file transfers, especially when ...