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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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Convert an old PC to Ubuntu File Server

I have an old PC (P-III 550Mhz, 512MB RAM) which has reliably served as my local development server for years. I now want give it this box additional role of a file server for network backups, by using RAID 1 with two 2TB SATA Hard Drives for…
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FIle Services Resource Manager alternative for Windows Web Server 2008

We need to provide disk quota managment for specific folders. On our hosting server Windows Web Server edition is installed. It has not File Server role that is why I cannot use FIle Services Resource Manager. Is there any alternative product (it…
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REST-based file server

I need to be able to PUT files and GET them later using nothing but HTTP, so I went searching for something that might match the terms "REST file server" or "HTTP file server" or "REST drop-box", etc. Unfortunately, these terms bring up the wrong…
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External Storage for 2TB of backups and 4TB of data RAID level? HW vs Software?

I have a Mac Mini set up as a media center/file server. Currently I just have a hodgepodge mess of external drives for storage. I'm maxed out, and I have some new laptops on the way with much larger drives and I need to work out a good storage…
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Including file server into domain

We have a file server in our LAN. Windows 2003 Server. It was not included into our domain. Every user has local account on that server, and NTFS permissions are granted to those local accounts. Now we have established a domain controller. Every…
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Expanding iSCSI LUNs (NTFS)

I have a 4TB iSCSI LUN that formated as NTFS in Windows 2008. I've shared this formated volume as a folder over SMB. When the capacity of this volume is not enough, I have to add more iSCSI LUNs, but the end-users must see only the folder that I've…
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Duplicate files with the server name on a File Server

For some time it has been happening to me that in a file server, where I have a shared folder with the departments of the company, in some folders it has been duplicating some files by adding the name of the server to final. It does not happen…
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List connections to OS X Server, and what sharepoint they have mounted?

I have an Xserve running OS X Server 10.4.11. It has Apple File Protocol enabled to share a few dozen sharepoints on the local network. I would occasionally like to get a listing of who is currently connected to the server (easily done with Server…
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How to migrate User Data to OneDrive without granting administrators permissions

Performing a migration of all users "personal" files to OneDrive and I'm quite new to this all. My small organization is in the process of migrating to SharePoint and OneDrive, and our Users are not synced between On Premise AD and…
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Office shared-disk error "We are connecting to \\server, please wait"

When browsing a fileserver direclty from Office applications as Excel/Word, it takes a long time to connect to the shared-disk, so opening/saving files are a problem (see screenshot). error loading "We are connecting to \server\share, please…
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Can't mount a NFS share on File server rule running in Windows Failover Cluster

On Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) I've created a File Server role and created a NFS share (similar to how it's described in these instructions). The idea was to mount this share from a virtual machine running…
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FSRM Auto apply template not applying to exisiting folders

I have set up an auto-apply template using FSRM to a path with a number of existing subfolders but when I apply it, the exisiting folders are not getting a quota created for them. There are 174 sub-folders, combined size is ~6.5GB, 13k files. New…
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Powershell Cygwin copy data with Rsync remote as variable

I have a problem with Cygwine's rsync. With a Powershell script I am trying to transfer directories from a Novell server to a Windows server The path for the source is a variable that comes from a CSV file Function CopyRsync…
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File sharing access denied error on the Windows 2016 file server. only with ONE folder

My problem is as followed: Situation I have a Windows 2016 file server. In the server role the d: drive is shared. I have many shared folders each with the name of a user and shared to that user. Every user (W10) has a documents folder inside and is…
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Not able to connect to HTTP server outside of LAN

I have made an apache webserver with xampp on windows 7 Ultimate. I have set DDNS and port forwarding on port 80 in my AT&T bg210 router. I can connect to the website on the LAN, but not on another network. BI know that WIN7 is end of life. I have…
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