Basic NFS Configuration
A somewhat more advanced form of file sharing, built in to all UNIX operating systems, is the Network Filesystem (NFS). Unlike AppleTalk and Windows networking, NFS is not a peer-to-peer protocol. It's a client-server model—where one machine has shares (or specific folders in the filesystem that are exported, or made available over the network), and another machine connects to that machine requesting access to its shares. The client then mounts the desired share into its own filesystem, as though the NFS share were simply another UNIX disk or partition, and the user can list the files in it and work with them at the shell command line.
Like FTP, NFS has no built-in means for browsing, or the ability to get a listing of ...
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