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TroubleShooters.com: NFS: Overview and Gotchas

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 16, 2003

[ 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)…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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