I frequently set up MFPs to push out files via SMB, and there's plenty of areas where problems can crop up during every stage of the process. Bad user authentication, firewall settings, MAC filtering, ...

I just noticed my OS X Macs can't "see" SMB shares with names longer than 12 characters.<BR><BR>Example: <BR><BR>I use the "Connect to Server" box to find a smb server (smb://servername). When I am ...

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, ...

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 ...

SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) is a widely used protocol for sharing files across networks. However, traditional SMB/CIFS implementations require open ports, making them ...

When it comes to sharing files across different machines, there are two protocols that most home labbers and tinkerers consider first: NFS and SMB. Both get the job done, but they serve different ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atsign, the leader in invisible zero trust connectivity solutions, today announced that its NoPorts technology now supports invisible SMB/CIFS ...

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 ...

If things seem a little backward in the BYOD era (bring-your-own-device), it’s because in some respects they are. And BYOD is causing problems for small and midsized businesses that put a premium on ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for people in the Windows Server Insider Program. It has the build number of 25997 and, among many changes, adds SMB over QUIC to the Datacenter ...