There are a lot of practical uses for a personal server, both at home and for a business. You can use them to network local computers, provide communal storage, host email, and a variety of other ...

Whether you're a home labber looking to connect self-hosted services with a storage server or a casual user trying to pair your NAS with a Windows machine, you’ve definitely heard of SMB. Besides NFS, ...

The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build 25992 for Insiders in the Canary Channel. It includes a number of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes, a Snipping Tool update, and more.

While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 ...

Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 SMB server is now better protected against brute-force attacks with the release of the Insider Preview Build 25206 to the Dev Channel. Redmond has enabled the ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

One of the pieces of hardware in my setup that I use daily is the NAS. Whether I am working on my PC at home or traveling with my MacBook, my NAS keeps my files in sync regardless of which device I am ...

There is some media on a ntfs drive on my windows desktop that I am trying to transfer over to my mac's external apfs nvme ssd drive. Is using using windows samba sharing service secure enough to ...

One of the ways in which Server 2008’s new version of the Server Message Block protocol improves performance over the original version of SMB is through something called “opportunistic locking,” or ...