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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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How can I safely run windows 2008 server as a fileserver in VMWare ESXI?

We are planning to add a virtual disk to an existing "windows 2008 R2" domain controller. The new disk will act as a fileserver for the domain. (The administration said we should do it this way to save a licence and the additional cpu overhead.) I…
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File Server: to zip or not to zip

My workplace shares a SMB fileserver for storing documents and files that we receive from clients. The contents of these directories are usually a mixture of Documents (PDF, .docx) and images. Clients send us whole nested directories (from a wide…
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Samba shares empty and not writeable when browsing OS X 10.8

When I mount a Samba share it works, but it doesn't show me any files, even though they exist on the server, I also cannot write files to the share either. The server is CentOS 6.4, running Samba. Clients are 10.8. I can mount a share from the…
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Run an rsync replication script under a user other than root

How can I run an rsync backup/replication script in a user other than root while preserving permissions? This is a multi-user fileserver, where each user has a *nix account for permissions. Running with the root user poses obvious security risk -…
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Best way of sharing files over 2 sites (locations) with Windows Server 2008r2

I'm currently learning Windows Server 2008r2 and am going to be setting up a network which spreads over 2 different buildings. The only connection between them is the internet and the users need to be able to access their files from the file server…
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How can I build a file server that we can incrementally grow, in Linux?

I work in an scientific lab with a limited budget and ever-growing need for storage. A year ago we needed ~2-3 TB storage, today we need 13+ TB which fills our current server (linux, raid 6 with 9 drives), and it will only keep growing. The files…
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How do I disconnect users from a file stored on a NAS?

We recently migrated our file servers from a Windows file server to an EMC VNXe NAS device. Previously, when a user needed into a critical file that someone else had open and the situation warranted, I'd log into the file server and disconnect any…
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Building linux infrastructure that similar to windows solutions

I am working on Microsoft gold partner organization in last 3 months. All of our IT solutions based on Microsoft products. Here are the basic lists of products that we using our maintenance DHCP WSUS (with SQL server) WDS Fileserver DNS 2…
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Basic samba server install?

I am looking to do a simple Samba server install on my Ubuntu 11.04 VM. What I need is some shares to be public and few shares to be private. What I need to know is what I have to keep in the config file in order to maintain a basic configuration. I…
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DFS replication and disk quotas on Windows 2008 R2 file servers

How is disk quota treated in a DFS environment? Do quotas also get replicated to member servers? How do you setup quotas and file screening for this kind of environment? I'd like to know your experiences in setting this up.
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Multi-threaded linux antivirus software that works with new kernels

Q1: Does anyone know of some real-time, on-access protection antivirus software for linux, that is capable of fully utilizing multi-core processors of today? I am having issues using KAV for Samba, as while it does its on-access scanning, files are…
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Shared storage solution for ~200 compute nodes

I have ~200 compute nodes that I run my programs on. When these programs are run, these nodes will need access to a shared location where my data is stored. I need a storage that can house ~3TB of data but should be zippy when accessed from all the…
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How to securely sync files from a Windows-based filer to a Linux-based filer?

I have a Windows filer behind a corporate fire wall and a Linux-based filer in a cloud installation. I've been attempting do an rsync-over-ssh-tunnel of files from the Windows filer to the Linux filer using rsync and ssh under Cygwin. I'm running in…
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Configuring samba to change ownership virtually

We have 2 ubuntu 8.04 LTS fileservers running samba version 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.12, they export samba shares for windows server 2003 machines. There is no windows AD domain, just plain user authentication. From /etc/samba/smb.conf: [global] …
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Network Share on File Server Cluster being Interrupted

When I perform heavy disk operations, like deleting 10k files at a time, the network share becomes unresponsive and won't serve out files for a short time. Here's my configuration. I have a failover file server cluster composed of two Windows 2008…
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