June 2016
Beginner
456 pages
9h 31m
English
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed filesystem protocol that allows clients to access remote files and directories as if they are available on the local system. This allows client systems to leverage large centrally shared storage. Users can access the same data from any system across the network. A typical setup for NFS includes a server that runs the NFS daemon, nfsd, and lists (export) files and directories to be shared. A client system can mount these exported directories as their local file system.
In this recipe, we will learn how to install the NFS server and client systems.
You will need two Ubuntu systems: one as a central NFS server and another as a client. For this recipe, we will ...
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