NAS or Network-Attached Storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to clients. It mainly operates as a file server and is specialized for this by its hardware, software or a mix of those. Most NASes offer many accessing algorithms (like Samba, FTP, SSH and many more) and can host a website, stream multimedia and do many more tasks.
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Distributing Video on a LAN to alternate Locations - Can the browser detect this?
I'm the administrator for a company intranet and I'd like to start producing videos. However, we have a very small bandwidth tunnel between our locations, and I'd like to avoid hogging it by streaming videos by multiple users.
I'd like to…
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Benefits of using FreeNAS instead of Shared Disk in Windows
I can use Microsoft Windows OS and make One disk as shared disk. Anyone within the Network can access to that. Instead of that i can use FreeNAS and make Network Attached Storage for my network. Apple Windows or Linux can access this storage. that…
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Renaming and Moving Files on a Mapped Network Drive using PHP
I am generating a small script that manipulates a file name, renames the file, and moves it to a directory within it's current directory.
The problem (I think) is that I am running a local PHP Script from my computer and trying to have it do the…
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Deploying to more than one application server
We have reached that point where one application server is not enough.
Apart from performance benefits we want to have a somewhat failover scenario as we cannot afford a 30 minute downtime just because the server needs a reboot for the new kernel.…
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Qnap raid 5 can not be rebuild
I am pretty new at working with qnap, I am taking care of an old configuration of an ex-employee and I am lost about recent problems coming out with the office NAS.
Everything started with a HDD failure (number 2), the HDD was replace and the NAS…
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Visual Foxpro or VFP 9: Networking the database from a NAS drive
I am very new to VFP9 and need to move all the database files for a 6 user program to a Netgear ReadyNas Duo V2 shared network drive. I have moved the .dbc .dcx .dct .dbf .cdx and .fpt files to the Nas (\Nas-a0-3d-36\Daimler) but I don't know what…
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Trying to set up remote git, pushing initial commit gives "git-receive-pack: not found"
I'm trying to set up a git origin on my Synology DS212J NAS server.
When I try this command to push to the server:
git remote add nas ssh://username@nasip/volume1/path/to/repo/repo.git
git push nas master
I am first prompted with my password, which…
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Easy way to measure LAN network speed of a partcular computer?
I want to measure the network speed between two PCs on Local Area Network. (I'm thinking of getting a Network Area Storage (NAS) device and I want to see how fast the current setup is to get an idea of how fast the NAS needs to be.
I'm thinking…
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OSX : how to access NAS files in Java
My Environment is OSX BIG SUR.
For space reasons, I need to move files from my Hard disk to a NAS (on my local network).
The current applications accessing these files (en read mode) were developed in Java.
I suppose I should use a Mount command…
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Dual network configuration with NAS communication
What network configuration would i need for this setup or is it even possible to set it up this way:
24 Port switch in Room1:
5x Production pc's - 192.168.2.20-99
1x NAS 192.168.2.100
1x Ubiquity AP Pro - 192.168.2.101
2x mini wifi pc's -…
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Take rowmean of sorted columns for first 4 that are not NA (python)
I have a dataframe (df) with populations for columns, instances as rows, and frequencies as entries (see attached screenshot, there about 2.3M rows and 40 columns).
I have a way of sorting populations by their geographical distance. What I would…
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How to remove a given static IP from a different network?
I have a NAS drive and it has a static IP (192.168.0.10 and DHCP disabled). I need to connect it to my Home network (its IP setting is 192.168.8.x and DHCP enabled).So they are two different network settings.
How can I access the NAS through my Home…
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Cannot symlink onto a NAS in Catalina
Per This link, I want to backup my iPhone onto a NAS since my iPhone is almost full and has the same 120gb storage as my MacBook Air and Mac mini. I have set up a dedicated SMB share on my OMV nas, but when I try to link that folder to the iPhone…
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About NAS and SAN(protocols, architecture, etc..)
I am currently kind of having trouble to understand between NAS and SAN.
As far as I figured out, NAS and SAN are kind of defined as below.
NAS(Network attached storage)
- Usually used as file storage and use Ethernet Infrastructure to communicate…
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Can't connect to NAS, even via IP
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Been having a lot if issues with this problem. Randomly PC won't connect to NAS for apparently no reason at all, while others it works. I read tonne of posts about various fixes, some worked sometimes, some didn't, but lately none did.…
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