I have a pair of Windows Server 2008 VMs running on ESX 3.5 that serve several websites, some of them fairly busy. The servers are clustered using NLB, and access common data on a CIFS share hosted on ...

SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) is a widely used protocol for sharing files across networks. However, traditional SMB/CIFS implementations require open ports, making them ...

Any burst of errors with a length of 32 or less There are obviously other potential issues. I got that list from here. IPv6 does away with those TCP protocol checksums because Ethernet already has a ...

Andrew Tridgell clears up a few misconceptions about Samba over on Groklaw. Samba, in case you aren't familiar with the project, provides print and file services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is probably ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is the network protocol glue that binds many file and print servers and clients for Windows and Linux, but it’s recently been running into some trouble. First, Microsoft’s ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atsign, the leader in invisible zero trust connectivity solutions, today announced that its NoPorts technology now supports invisible SMB/CIFS ...