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 ...

Explore the differences between NFS and SMB for local file sharing, including speed, compatibility, and setup complexity.

The transfer speeds never bothered me until I stumbled upon my colleague Ayush Pande’s take on an amazing file transfer trick — SMB Multichannel. Initially, I thought it was s ...

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Microsoft is appealing to organizations to stop using Server Message Block (SMB) version 1. The SMB protocol works with server and client operating systems, enabling actions such as file sharing, as ...

Samba is a remarkable piece of engineering. It provides directory tree browsing and sharing; disk, file and printer sharing; WINS resolution; and Windows domain client authentication. It runs under ...

Starting with this build (Build 25992), we are introducing the following Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes. SMB firewall rule changes: Creating SMB shares changes a longtime Windows Defender ...

Redmond is investigating reports that a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's implementation of the Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) protocol, an extension of the conventional server message block ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Server Message Block protocol, better known as SMB, is one of ...

Although this month's two-patch security bundle is small, the patches repaired critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core Services and Server Message Block Protocol, which affect several ...