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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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Medium office fileserver: One professional server or multiple cheaper servers in cluster?

What would you recommend for a medium office fileserver? By medium office I mean roughly 100-150 users that connect to the fileserver sporadically during the day. We're talking about 2TB of data and rising. File sizes ranging from a lot of small…
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Add "File Server for General Use" on top of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Cluster

We have a S2D Storage Spaces Direct cluster that we are wanting to add a General Purpose File Server to. Is it possible to use the S2D Cluster Shared Volume for the File Server role ? When i try and create the File Server role it gives me this…
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Move SOFS shares to File Server in general use

I have a task to move SOFS shares to FS in general use for cluster server. Unfortunately, I am not expert of Windows Server. Has anybody do this task? I'd like to have help for it and step by step reconfiguration of it. The idea is to delete SOFS…
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How to accelerate metadata (getattr) requests on an NFS file server for fast locally-cached reads?

We have a storage server with a 12 disk RAID-6 pool of 100 TB. It is used by several client compute nodes via NFS, mostly running deep learning training (lots of images ~100 KB, loaded in random order). To speed up file access, we use cachefilesd on…
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SMB/CIFS verify data integrity

I'm in the middle of setting up a new fileserver on my network, and can't decide which file-transfer protocol to use. Ensuring that any data transferred to/from the server isn't corrupted in transit is my highest priority, since I'll be transferring…
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USB Flash Drives As Boot Drives In File Server

I'm designing a file server based around ZFS and I'm considering using USB flash drives in RAID 1 as boot devices. It seems that few people do this, and I'm wondering why. From what I see, using USB flash drives have some benefits: Cheaper than…
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Windows 2008 R2 File Server Cluster Missing Volumes in Share Management

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 File Server Cluster which is failing to correctly display disk volume information when provisioning a new share, and when undertaking share management. I've been unable to find any information about this problem…
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Resize a Google Cloud Platform Persistent Disk in a Single-Node File Server (ZFS server)

I've set up a file server several months ago using the click-to-deploy method on Google Cloud Launcher (https://cloud.google.com/launcher/docs/single-node-fileserver). This created a ZFS server in a VM and a 500 GB persistent disk. I have updated…
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Intermittently can't make a folder on fileserver (Win2008R2)

I have a weird problem so far affecting two Server 2008 R2 fileservers with 1TB data stores. Intermittently, it's not possible to create a new folder in parts of the directory tree (including when RDPed to the server as a domain admin). Or to be…
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Windows fileserver and ABE

I am in the process of creating a new Windows 2008R2 file server and have some issues with Access Based Enumaration. I don't just want to migrate all data and permissions as our structure is grown over the course of the past ~15 years and to be…
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File Server Resource Manager not moving expired files

I have setup a File Server Resource Manager task under Server 2008 R2. The task has the following properties: - Type: File expiration - Scope: W:\Share\Company - Expiration folder: S:\Archive - Days since file was last modified: 1460 days (4…
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Windows Server 2012R2 can't be pinged while copying big file (HP DL 380 G8)

I have an HP DL380 G8 Server with installed Windows Server 2012 R2 and newest Network drivers etc. Another Person copied big files from an network share to the local hard disk. While copying the server wasn't reachable any more (no ping, RDP Session…
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Redirect to 404 if filename passed as parameter does not exitsts

I have special parameter data=/path/to/filename.htm in uri. Its old and rusty site builded on SSI, and I can't modify it. Problem is when filename passed as arg_data not exists, page is broken. I want redirect to 404.htm in this case. Something like…
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Moving shared folders and user profile folders to a new server

I need to retire a file server soon. I was wondering if there is a correct way to transfer department shares and user profile folders to the new server in a way that retains all folder and subfolder permissions settings? And secondly are there any…
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Windows Fileserver Allow users to manage permissions on folders they create

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Fileserver serving Win and Mac (SMB) clients. I have say 5 folders: Happy Sad Lonely Stinky and Grumpy. All of the folders should be public to domain users except Happy and Sad, which should be restricted to the Happy and…
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