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Windows Professional / Home edition includes limitation for not handling more than 10 SMB connections.

Network file server can ignore client file flush requests and thus increase the network file performance.

Disabling system aliasing can free resources but will disable mounting and reparse points

The lookup cache for network files makes it faster to reopen a file placed on a remote share.

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.

Windows Explorer will automatically request extended file information when trying to open a file on a network share.

Windows Explorer sends a Change Notification request to the remote server when mapping a network share.

How the IPC$ share makes it possible for clients to access shares on the server.

Windows creates by default a network shares for each drive letter, which is used for administrative tasks.