thenetworker

networking technologies blog with a specific focus on how to support these technologies.

Use of CNAME Records for availability in DFS / Offline Files integration

Offline folders, a.k.a. client side caching, is a great feature of Windows since 2000 and it allows...

Date: 08/12/2008

scalable networking pack

In late 2007 we have released an important feature update to the existing network stack on 2003...

Date: 07/31/2008

of tcp sequence numbers and PAWS

in a not so sunny Reading, I saw it best fit to sit down and write about one of the more interesting...

Date: 04/20/2008

of oplocks and locks

below you'll find a sample understanding what oplocks are and how they are handled by SMB over the...

Date: 01/04/2008

of file access over smb and trace analysis – part 2

4    26.359326        192.168.1.6    192.168.1.8    NTLMSSP    NTLMSSP:NTLM NEGOTIATE MESSAGE...

Date: 12/14/2007

of file access over smb and trace analysis

file access over the network using the command prompt is utilized by the Microsoft CSS engineers to...

Date: 12/09/2007

of slow file copy issues

from time to time you may just as well be unsatisfied with the speed of file copy over a network...

Date: 10/21/2007