For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

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 ...

In the last couple of newsletters, we discussed the movement to consolidate servers into centralized data centers. We also discussed the problems that can result from running Common Internet File ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s recent donation of source code that implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol to the OpenSolaris project will enable Windows users to store and retrieve files ...

This command displays a quick look at real-time statistics for key system areas, including: CPU, NFS and CIFS protocols, network traffic, disk read and write rates and replication statistics. This is ...

In this slidecast, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews Ken Cheney, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Likewise. The company’s new storage offering brings concurrency to mixed network ...