A mechanism for allowing and mediating access to files for non-local users and programs. Such mechanisms are either built on top of local filesystems or seamlessly integrated into distributed filesystems. Common examples of file sharing mechanisms include CIFS (SMB, DFS), NFS, GlusterFS, Lustre.
Questions tagged [file-sharing]
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Limit who can access a folder in Windows, including encryption & administration
We want to keep our HR files on a share that only 3 people in HR can access. I'd prefer to do this on a share on our file server on a Windows box.
We need the files to be encrypted so that someone ont he file server can't view them.
Determining who…
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How do I get my machine to access the share now?
Disclaimer: Using windows to share files is definitely not as simple as on *nix, even if it seems like.
First, I'm assuming we can securely (with passwords) share files / folders in basically only two ways:
Have the same user+password on both…
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Does the number of files slow down the server?
Having numerous files will obviously slow down the OS; but how much this problem is serious? Consider that the files have been well distributed over multi-level folders. Does still the number of files (probably because of using inodes) can slow down…
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Synchronizing code for multiple users
I'm a beginner in all this and am working on a project with a few other people.
I'm facing some problems.
My code is to worked on by another person simultaneously.
I want to perform staging on a server.
How do I maintain my code like that?
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Fileshare server infrastructure name
I'm currently developing a documents fileshare service, and it becomes more and more evident that my very basic configuration with a server from Plesk is insufficient for my needs. I.e. I'm starting 3-4 downloads on the server and loading the…
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Is nfs good to share disk images over the internet?
I have an image server, this server contains disk images to be used by virtual machines.
The server has to allow the runtime creation of new images, so iscsi is not good as it requires to restart the iscsi server in order to introduce a new target…
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Put ZIP file on server for public
I was wondering if I can upload a ZIP file to my server and then make it public by sharing the link with others
For example I was thinking about an URL like this:
http://mydomain.com/files/test.zip
The question I have if this method of sharing…
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