October 2001
Beginner
1024 pages
25h 8m
English
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NFS is an excellent solution for file sharing between UNIX machines, where UNIX permissions and file meta-data (such as modification times) must be preserved from machine to machine. However, NFS isn't widely supported on many consumer operating systems. Windows and classic Mac OS support it only through third-party applications, and—more importantly in an enterprise environment—there isn't any “discovery” mechanism built in to NFS to allow clients to browse lists of available servers.
When you put a FreeBSD machine into an existing network, ...
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