XDA Developers on MSN

I stopped using SMB and switched to NFS for my Windows backups, and it was shockingly easy

I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.
XDA Developers on MSN

I thought my NAS was the bottleneck, but these 5 SMB settings were

Slow NAS speeds aren’t always a hardware problem.
Ars Technica

An applescript application that opens a connection using smb://

Is this possible?<BR><BR>I've had a hell of a time finding anything anywhere on the web about it, so I thought I'd post a question here.<BR><BR>I have a share on my windows box that I'd like to ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 to let admins mandate SMB encryption for outbound connections

Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all outbound connections, starting with today's Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982 rolling out to Insiders in the Canary Channel. SMB ...
Ars Technica

Anyone using a Synology, bound to Open Directory, and authenticating Macs for SMB?

- Bound against the OS X Server for network client authentication. - Authentication of network clients via AFP works fine. - Authentication of network clients via SMB fails: o With CIFS plain-text ...