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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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Accessing local files through an http:// address

I would like to access a folder of mp3 files on my local Windows machine through http:// addresses. For example, typing http://localhost:9999/songs/test.mp3 into my browser would play test.mp3, which sits in a specified folder on my C: drive. What…
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what's standard web server downtime?

I want to know the standard of web server, file server, database server and print server downtime per day.
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Virtual Fileserver

We are planning to move our production servers to the datacenter and virtualize remaining servers in the process.Datacenter will have HP blades with vSphere on top.Currentliy we are using Celerra NS20 as fileserver.Since datacenter is using HP kit…
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How to have cloudfront distribution listen on custom port for HTTPS?

I have setup a Cloudfront distribution on AWS with custom domain name to fetch firmware update file from S3. However, the existing devices that we have with customers make an HTTPS request to that same custom domain name on port 4433 instead of the…
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One share vs multiple shares on a fileserver

In the past, before the NTFS filesystem, creating shares was the only way to set permissions on shared data. But with NTFS being there, you can basically have all the data on a server be in one shared folder, and use NTFS permissions on the folders…
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fsync failed on Samba share, cannot write to anything

I have several Samba shares running on my Synology RackStation NAS server. Lets just call these Samba shares: newton1 newton2 newton3 Each of the newtons is pointing towards a different RAID volume. newton1 and newton3 are working smoothly and…
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Transfer Speed Limited by Fileserver?

We have a 4gbit teamed nic fileserver that hosts smb shares. The files it accesses are from an ISCI NAS drive which is 10gbit. Will transfer speeds be limited by the file server? Or does the ISCI "pass through" at 10gbit?
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How can I find the path in which a file is open

I need to migrate a Server 2008 Fileserver. My problem is, that some Users have access to there data over DFS and other have mapped simple Shares. Now I have migrated the DFS but I don't know which users have manual mapped shares whitout DFS. Is…
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How to detect unused windows server shared folders

We have inherited a fileserver that holds a bunch (about 100) nested shared folders. For example: D:\L1 > shared as L1 D:\L1\L2 > shared as L2 D:\L1\L2\L3 > shared as L3 I am currently trying to clean up and move this data to another…
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How can I redirect netbios requests?

I've got a fileserver which we've had to decommision... Lets call it FILE-OLD. It's been replaced by a shiny new fileserver, lets call that one FILE-NEW. FILE-NEW has the same IP as FILE-OLD used to have, and pinging FILE-OLD gets a reply due to a…
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Turning my Windows Server 2016 into a remote file server

my company purchased a Windows Server 2016 instance with AWS in order to replace our current Windows Server 2008 (which resides in a closet in our office). However it has proven more difficult than expected to replace all the functionality. Our…
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Who is sftp-ing files to me? Is there any way to find out?

I've had to take responsibility for an Ubuntu linux machine that we're using as a file server. I have almost no prior experience with Linux. One of the things I'm trying to get a handle on is a bunch of very large files that someone is transferring…
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Unable to add share to 2012 R2 file server cluster - Role name not found

I am trying to set up a proof of concept file server cluster to ensure it will meet our needs before we implement a live cluster. I have setup a cluster of two nodes, with 2 networks (one for cluster and client (10.0.0.0), the other cluster only…
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Only Cannot Access FTP Server from Outer Sub-net (error 425)

Background / Network Structure The are two layers of routers. The router at the outer layer has public Internet IP 123.123.123.123 (fake as example) and private IP 192.168.0.1. The router at the inner layer, which is also a client of the outer…
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DFS referral cache duration

We have two domain-based DFS servers in our main office. A smaller location is connected through a VPN with the main office and uses the DFS for accessing shared resources in the main as well as at the own location. We would like to increase the…
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