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Network File System (NFS)
summary
����This subchapter looks at Network File System (NFS) on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X.
Network File System (NFS)
����This subchapter looks at Network File System (NFS) on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X.
����The Network File System (NFS) allows a directory on one machine to be accessed from another machine. This is an important feature of UNIX.
����The procedure for setting up the Network File System is called mounting.
����NFS provides a seemless method to merge different file systems from different physical machines into a large shared structure. NFS works across different kinds of UNIX or Linux and even different kinds of processors.
����With NFS, a user doesn�t need to know or keep track of the actual physical locations of directories and files. The NFS files and directories appear to be a normal part of the file system and are accessed with the exact same methods as any local file or directory.
mount/export
����The mount command will replace a local directory with a directory from another machine. Anyone viewing the mounted directory will see the remote directory as if it were local.
����The export command is used to make a directory available for other computers to mount it.
����The /etc/exports file contains a list of directories to be exported.
����mount should be run from root.
availability
����Network File System (NFS) was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 and is based on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC) system.
����NFS runs on most UNIX and UNIX-like systems (including Solaris, AIX, Free BSD, HP-UX, Linux, and Mac OS X), as well as classic Macintosh, Microsoft WIndows, Novell NetWare, and IBM AS/400.
����Alternative remote file access protocols include Server Message Block (SMB, also called CIFS), Apple Filing Protocol (AFS), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), and OS/400 File Server file system (QFileSvr.400).
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