TroubleShooters.com: NFS: Overview and Gotchas

[ Thanks to Steve Litt for this link. ]

"NFS is the best thing since sliced bread. It stands for Network File System. NFS is a file and directory sharing mechanism native to Unix and Linux.

"NFS is conceptually simple. On the server (the box that is allowing others to use its disk space), you place a line in /etc/exports to enable its use by clients. This is called sharing. For instance, to share /home/myself for both read and write on subnet 192.168.100, netmask 255.255.255.0, place the following line in /etc/exports on the server:

/home/myself 192.168.100.0/24(rw)

"To share it read only, change the (rw)to (ro)..."

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• Lowth.com: Configuring NFS under Linux for IPTABLES control(May 08, 2003)
• O'Reilly: Using NFS for Networked Backups(Mar 14, 2003)
• LinuxPlanet: Modern Distributed Filesystems For Linux: An Introduction(Aug 07, 2002)