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A file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files (such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by the clients that are attached to the same computer network.

The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client–server scheme, where the clients are the endpoints using the storage. A file server is not intended to perform computational tasks, and does not run programs on behalf of its clients. It is designed primarily to enable the storage and retrieval of data while the computation is carried out by the workstations.

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samba config for guest users

win10 has disabled SMB2 guest account. If I try samba standard config below works with win7. The workaround on win10 is re-enable SMB2 guest account from clients: Open the Local Group Policy editor Go to Computer Configuration\Administrative…
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Apache fileserver: authentication respecting underlying permissions and ACL's insted of user which Apache is running

This is my situation: I have the same large volume mounted in many hosts at the same time using Lustre and exporting it trough many protocols (FTP, CIFS, NFS and HTTP). On Apache I have configured this directory using LDAP authentication. The…
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Deleting Spanned Volume on File Server between Disk 1 & Disk 2

I have Windows Server 2012 R2 and it is my file server and it auto syncs user's file every minute. I have 3 disks. The primary partition (Disk 0) and two others (Disk 1 & Disk 2). My question does not include the primary partition. I shrunk Disk 2…
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Would a flat or tree-like file structure allow for faster fetching of files by Path?

Would a flat file structure allow for faster locating/fetching of files by Path in an NTFS (Windows 10 File System) or would it essentially be as efficient as a highly structured tree with a bunch of subfolders? I'm using node.js to fetch a few…
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Windows Home Server style redundancy/multi-disk-support on Windows Server 2008 R2?

I'm setting up a fileserver for our department. It'll be connected to the domain. I want it to have a very large amount of storage (several TB). Ideally, it should also preserve disk space by identifying identical files and only storing them once.…
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Creating "private" shared folder on the file server for each user on the domain

We have a Windows Server 2008 File Server (Raid-5 NAS) where I'd like to setup a private folder for each user on the domain and provide each with a soft quota of about 2 GB. The quota part is no problem, but is there a way of creating the folders…
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File Expiration (File Server) - Windows Server 2012

I need help. Users are receiving an email originated by File Server, informing them that the files will expire in X days, but there is no such configuration on the file server. Can anyone suggest what could have happened? Can this configuration be…
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Set network share quota using Powershell

I don't have experience with Microsoft FSRM and in my quest in finding a solution to my question, I couldn't find one; maybe it's out there but I just could find it. I have multiple folders in my network share. Let's say the root share is…
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Failover Cluster waits till the Site to Site DNS Replication done

I created a failover cluster with 2 subnets in AWS VPC. In one subnet I have DC1 (10.30.10.101) and Node 01 (10.30.10.102). In other subnet, I have DC2 (10.30.12.101)and Node 02 (10.30.12.102). Cluster is created (10.30.10.120 and 10.30.12.120) I…
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Use LDAP Account Manager with OpenLDAP to manage Samba4 users for a file server

I'm setting up a file server in Ubuntu using Samba4. I need an easy way to manage users, so I'm using LDAP Account Manager with OpenLDAP I can successfully create users by running sudo smbpasswd -a I set up OpenLDAP and LDAP Account…
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Samba internal network fileserver (without passwords)

I'm trying to setup very simple file server with Samba. Security is not concern, as server is only accessible from internal network that's why my configuration problem looks like this: [global] guest account = dan netbios name = FS …
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offload serving dynamic files from app server to nginx

I'm using Nginx as Reverse Proxy for my App Server. The App Server receives file download requests via this route: /files/:id Then the app finds the file path on the File System i.e. /path/to/file/with/id and responds with the file contents. I don't…
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Migrating 2 domain controllers from server 2003 to 2012

Company has domain that they need to migrate from (dobbde.com) into (dobbde123.com). They have a 2003 file server in dobbde.com and we want to deploy a 2012 file server in dobbde123.com. They have two domain controllers in dobbde.com (2003) and we…
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What is the simplest way to move an entire drive-worth of data from one server to another?

I'm tasked with moving an entire 930GB drive full of data from an old file server to a new one, and it needs to be done in a single weekend. The old server runs 2008 R2 Standard and acts as a file server for our office. The new server will run 2012…
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Use IIS as an internet file server for our local AD network

I have a Windows specific question. Some of our staff have approached me asking if its possible to have a web portal setup where they can access our entire local network's active directory folders. So that they can get access to files if they are…
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