It's the heart of your network, so it's essential that you get the best possible performance from your server. From a user perspective, the network file server is often both the most forgotten piece ...

Over the years I have provided computer consulting services for many businesses. While some of these small businesses have been simple one-man operations, many of them were larger. The thing that I ...

Today's computers make networking easy. Call the local cable or phone company to install a wireless router, change a few settings on each computer, configure a wireless printer and the network is up ...

A server is a specialized computer that provides services such as file hosting to client computers on a network. The scope of a server's duties can differ extensively, with Wide Area Network servers ...

A device that functions as an access control point for users in remote locations connecting to a company's internal network or to an ISP. Also called a "media gateway" or a "remote access server" (RAS ...

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers are common in enterprise networks to offer centralized authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for access control. But RADIUS ...

Cloud-based network management software firm Auvik Networks Inc. today announced a number of new capabilities in software-as-a-service automation, endpoint network visibility and server monitoring ...

There's hardly an aspect of life that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic hasn't impacted. And one area of the IT world that is feeling the pinch in network servers. From cancelled conferences to ...

If your server network performance is lagging, chances are Windows' security features are to blame. Here's how to alleviate the problem. One of the problems that has long plagued Windows Server 2012 ...

Apple's Back To My Mac service may interfere with Time Machine's ability to backup to a local network share. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...