Chapter 22. NFS: Sharing Filesystems

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Setting Up an NFS Client

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JumpStart: Mounting a Remote Directory Hierarchy

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Improving Performance

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Setting Up an NFS Server

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JumpStart: Configuring an NFS Server Using system-config-nfs

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Exporting a Directory Hierarchy

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automount: Automatically Mounts Directory Hierarchies

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The NFS (Network Filesystem) protocol, a UNIX de facto standard originally developed by Sun Microsystems, allows a server to share selected local directory hierarchies with client systems on a heterogeneous network. NFS runs on UNIX, DOS, Windows, VMS, Linux, and more. Files on the remote computer (the fileserver) appear as if they are present on the local system (the client). The physical location ...

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