I'm having repeated problems sharing folders between Windows 11 Pro workstations on the same network. The networks are set to Private, and network discovery and file sharing are…
I'm having persistent problems sharing folders between Windows 11 Pro workstations on the same network. Depending on the machine, I see errors such as "Network path not found"…
I need to switch several Azure file shares containing millions of files from read/write to read-only. Different users currently have different NTFS permissions, and the goal is for…
I'm getting extremely slow SMB file transfers from my Windows PC to a hard drive connected to an OpenWrt router. In File Explorer, both reads and writes usually…
I'm troubleshooting a strange SMB performance problem. My Windows PC connects to a hard drive attached to a Xiaomi Mi Router 3G running OpenWrt 25.12.5 with Samba4. In…
I'm trying to share a drive between two Windows 11 desktop computers on the same local network. I created a separate local account on the host computer specifically…
I'm trying to share a drive between two Windows 11 desktop computers on the same local network. I created a separate local account on the computer hosting the…
I have no on-premises Active Directory Domain Services or domain controllers. My users and Windows PCs are managed through Microsoft Entra ID, and I want them to access…
I don't have on-premises Active Directory Domain Services or domain controllers. My users and Windows PCs are managed through Microsoft Entra ID, and I want them to access…
I'm trying to share files from my Windows 11 laptop to my Windows 11 PC over the local network. The shared folders appear to be available, but Windows…
I work for a university system with several campuses, all of which rely on an old custom backend application that has not been updated in roughly 10 years.…
I work for a university system with several campuses, all of which use an old custom backend application that has not been updated in about 10 years. The…
I'm planning to migrate an on-premises Windows file server to Azure Files using Azure Storage Mover. The server currently hosts one share containing roughly 60 departmental folders and…
I'm planning to migrate an on-premises Windows file server to Azure Files using Storage Mover. The share contains roughly 1.5 TB of departmental data organized into about 60…
We had a RAID failure that went unnoticed for too long on a physical Windows Server 2016 machine. We replaced the failed drives, and the Storage Space is…
After moving client machines from Windows 11 23H2 to 24H2—and still reproducing the problem on 25H2—mapped SMB drives can cause Explorer and browser downloads to hang for roughly…
I'm having trouble accessing an SMB share from a Windows Server 2025 machine in my domain-joined environment. This NAS setup, which is connected through a VIP pool, works…
I'm running a home file-sharing server and I want to protect important files from being accidentally deleted by family members. Ideally, I'd like to limit access so that…
I've just started as the IT Lead at a medium-sized company with around 30 workstations, and I'm the only tech person here! I'm really looking forward to growing…
Hey everyone! I'm a systems technician, not exactly a developer, but I've been trying out different methods for silently deploying software to domain-joined Windows computers without using agents…