Among the applications most likely impaired by file server centralization are Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, which use Microsoft’s Common Internet File System (CIFS) file sharing protocol, as well as ...

Okay, I've got a standalone CIFS share built. Theoretically. -Data mover shows the CIFS Server -Data mover shows the CIFS share on that server -User account created on data mover that houses the CIFS ...

Microsoft CIFS and MAPI-based applications are lousy network citizens, so if you are about to move your Microsoft servers away from users, you should take pre-emptive measures—or buy extra life ...

I have two NFS servers and two CIFS servers, all four with a lustre backend. Users are running into problems that changes to files on one protocol are not visible on the other protocol. I have CTDB on ...

As more servers were added to run business-critical applications, the problems with DAS became more exaggerated. In a client-server architecture, storage is local to each server. Each storage device ...