December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
22h 41m
English
Simply wanting to start using NFS and exporting the filesystem will not give you the results you want. The way NFS is shared across a network is slightly more complicated. Several different configuration files and programs are involved. You'll see in the following sections which programs are involved and which configuration files are needed.
Before looking at the specific programs involved in NFS, a few words regarding how NFS is implemented are in order. NFS uses RPC, remote procedure calls, in order to work. This is because different systems that might use NFS might have different system calls. RPC levels the field, making calls across the network and allowing each system to interpret ...
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