CIFS vs NETBIOS & network performance
Testing file open performance across a WAN vs LAN. I open a 1MB .rtf file. When opening on the LAN, the traffic is on port 445 (CIFS). When opening the same file from the same server across the WAN, the traffic is on port 139 (NETBIOS). My question for all of you protocol gurus: Is [...]

Answer Question   |  June 2, 2011  7:12 PM
CIFS, LAN, NetBIOS, Network performance, Network performance management, WAN, Windows Server 2008

CL to change object owner of files in IFS whose directory name changes monthly
We have a vendor software package the creates a new directory each month in the IFS – ie /photos/201001 for January 2010.  Documents are stored in the directory for a given month and are owned by the user who created them.  We would like to write a cl that can be run monthly to change [...]

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  3:10 PM
CIFS, CL programming, IFS, IFS Commands, IFS Directory

Tracking which user deleted files after the fact
Can I tell what user deleted a group of files or folders via SMB? The users are on a mix of windows and apple machines but I can not determine who deleted the files. Is there any way to tell who did it after the fact?

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2010  1:39 PM
CIFS, Common Internet File System, Server Message Block, SMB, User tracking

De-Duplication Live in production
We use de-duplication technology for are backups. And I would like to know if someone have tried to implement de-duplication on a bit by bit level in a live production environement? I want to de-duplicate are CIFS volume, are VMWare volume and possibly are SAP volume. so is their somone that dit it and can [...]

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2009  4:32 PM
CIFS, Data Deduplication, De-duplication, VMware

Mac, Linux, Windows, Storage
What or how is the best way to present a single pool of storage to Mac clients using AFP, Windows using SMB/CIFS, and Linux/Unix using NFS? The ideal solution would be users to access all of their data whether they bounced from a Mac to a Linux workstation and then to a Windows system. Basically [...]

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2008  7:20 PM
AFP, CIFS, Linux, Mac, NAS, NFS, SAN, SMB, Storage management, Unix, Windows

CommVault VTL/CIFS backup issue
What do we know about any Commvault performance issues backing up to VTL/CIFS?

Answer Question   |  May 29, 2008  1:09 PM
CIFS, Common Internet File System, CommVault Galaxy, Virtual Tape Library, VTL

NETAPP SnapShot or VTL ???
Hello, We currently purchased 2 Netapp 3050 Filers for CIFS, FC, and ISCSI. We also have the Snapshot feature, but are not using it at this time. Now we are looking into a VTL for local recovery. Here’s our dilema. Why not forget about the VTL and take advantage of the NETAPP’s SNAPSHOT functionality. We [...]

Answer Question   |  July 30, 2008  2:48 PM
CIFS, FC, iSCSI, NetApp, SATA, VTL