Using NFS
NFS—the Network File System—allows you to share files between Linux (and Unix) computers on a TCP/IP network.
In concept, NFS works pretty much the same way as devices such as CD-ROMs or floppy drives added to your file system. In other words, to access a remote NFS file system as a client, it must first be mounted. It then becomes part of the file tree structure that you can see, joined at the mount point.
Conversely, for a client to access a file system on an NFS server, the server must make it available for mounting. (By the way, this has obvious security implications, which will be touched on in this section and later in this chapter in the "Security" section.)
When you make your file system available for mounting, you decide what ...
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