Chapter 12. Sharing data over a private network
This chapter covers
- Sharing documents with Network File System (NFS)
- Fine-tuning restricted access to an NFS share
- Automating remote file shares using /etc/fstab
- Securing and encrypting NFS shares
- Configuring Samba for sharing files with Windows clients
- Organizing your system resources with symbolic and hard links
If you read chapter 8 then you’re already up to speed with using Nextcloud to share files between clients over insecure networks like the internet. But for trusted local networks, there are simpler ways to collaborate that are more deeply integrated into the Linux file system itself.
I’m not suggesting that you can only do this locally. It’s possible to fully encrypt and secure file ...
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