Chapter 22. Network File System (NFS)
Network File System (NFS) is a way to share files between
machines on a network as if the files were located on the client's
local hard drive. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be both an NFS
server and an NFS client, which means that it can export file
systems to other systems and mount file systems exported from other
machines.
NFS is useful for sharing directories of files between multiple
users on the same network. For example, a group of users working on
the same project can have access to the files for that project
using a shared directory of the NFS file system (commonly known as
an NFS share) mounted in the directory /myproject. To access the shared files, the user
goes into the /myproject directory on his
machine. There are no passwords to enter or special commands to
remember. Users work as if the directory is on their local
machines.
