Paul's Site of Stuff ^..^

Steps required to view the status of a ZFS ARC cache in htop.

Ever since I [finally] got an IPv6 range for my home/business internet connection a few years back I have struggled to be able to access Microsoft services - either at all, or heavily delayed.

After migrating a client's file server from Windows to a FreeBSD samba share, they have noticed some files when opened are not prompting other users to open the file in "Read-Only" mode. The additional users can just open the file with read+write permissions.

This should not be!

Searching the internet gives a handful or results, often met with Microsoft's "Run these powershell commands blindly and you'll be sorted" support method - which are basically no help at all.