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.
Questions tagged [file-sharing]
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How do I mount sshfs at boot?
Using a NAS box as 24/7 file server, I'd like to use sshfs to connect to it from an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Currently, I have this line in the desktop's fstab: sshfs#jldugger@storage:/mnt/HD_a2/ /mnt/storage fuse…
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Expire Files In A Folder: Delete Files After x Days
I'm looking to make a "Drop Folder" in a windows shared drive that is accessible to everyone. I'd like files to be deleted automagically if they sit in the folder for more than X days. However, it seems like all methods I've found to do this, use…
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Is it possible to use bittorrent for a fileserver
I would like to set up a file server that is searchable, preferable via the web. I'm wondering if it would be possible to achieve this using the bittorrent protocol and have a single client sharing every single torrent on the server. I guess I could…
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Anonymous file sharing without login window, from Windows 7 server to XP clients
I'm trying to provide machines on a small LAN with read-only, anonymous access to files shared from a Windows 7 workstation (let's call it WIN7SVR). In particular, I don't want clients to have to deal with a login window when they navigate to, e.g.,…
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Disable file locks on a read-only Windows File Share
Case On a Windows Server (2012R2 or 2016), I want to configure a file share offering a following functionality some users, publishers group, have a write access to the share; these users are managing and updating the content on the share other…
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Moving a RAID array from one machine to another
I'm not too familiar with RAID arrays, but I plan on making a RAID 5 array for a fileserver. However, once I get the RAID running for a while, I have plans to move it to another machine (with completely different hardware). Is it possible to move an…
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I need to know if anyone is using our file server's IP address to access instead of the name. Any ideas?
I have been given the task of changing our current file server's IP address. I haven't been in the company long, so don't know what exactly reads and writes to it yet. Is there any way that I can tell if connections are being made to it by the IP…
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Connecting with Samba to a Windows Share returns "NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME"
I have set a shared directory on my Windows machine, and given full control permissions to username@workgroup. When I try to connect to the Windows machine with Linux using smbclient, I get the error NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME . Here is the…
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Scalable (> 24 TB) NAS for research department
I have been asked to provide a new fileserver to store our medical images (raw format, not dicom). As we have no IT staff, I have to find a solution, and I hardly know anything about this topic. The requirements we have are: scalable to 24 TB in 3…
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Shared Home folders on file server listed as "My Documents"
We have a Windows 2008 R2 file server sharing home folders for about 600 users. These folders are mapped to a shared drive for each user when they log in on their own workstations, and that mapped drive is in turn set as the default location in the…
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Cannot connect to local network shares when connected to VPN. Error: "the user name could not be found"
I keep finding that on our small company LAN (7 users, 3 servers) that some servers keep becoming "not accessible" for the purposes of file sharing. They display the message "\SERVER is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this…
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SCP hangs before File Transfer begins
I am trying to move a file from a virtual machine (Ubuntu 18.04) on my local system to a remote server using a very basic scp command. This issue is present only on one particular server, others work fine so it is not a generic thing. scp <file…
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NetworkService account access to a shared folder (WinSrv 2012R2)
We have services running under IIS with pool setup to run under NetworkService identity. If the service required access to a shared folder on a remote server, on previous versions of WinServer we just added the "ServerA$" account to the list of user…
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Copy large files to multiple machines on a LAN
I have a few large files that I need to copy from one Linux machine to about 20 other Linux machines, all on the same LAN as quickly as is feasible. What tools/methods would be best for copying these files, noting that this is not going to be a…
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Best sysctl.conf configuration for high load - extremely busy content streaming server
What is the best sysctl.conf configuration for a high load, extremely busy content streaming server ? The server fetches the content from remote servers like amazon, s3, etc. then uses php to dynamically stream the content to user without saving it…