Windows Professional / Home edition includes limitation for not handling more than 10 SMB connections.
Opportunistic locking delivers good network performance but older implementations can lead to data loss.
Sharing violations on files placed on network shares are retried while they block immediately with local files.
How to configure the password encryption level for better security.
The different password encryption algorithms available in the Microsoft Network.
How the security features in SMB signing can protect the network.
How the IPC$ share makes it possible for clients to access shares on the server.
The use of the master browser in the microsoft network, and how it is elected.
How to increase the security of the Microsoft network by enabling SMB signing.
Windows creates by default a network shares for each drive letter, which is used for administrative tasks.
How to configure the way Microsoft Windows participates in the master browser election.
How to configure the computer not to announce itself on the Microsoft Network.
Prepare the file servers to handle a higher loads and allow the clients to make more requests.
Increasing the request buffer size can improve file sharing performance on high latency networks.
Hiding a file-share by changing the name.
Adjust the memory usage of the server service according to the server role.