Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
* Tom Nielsen (tom@neuro-logic.com) [031107 14:55]:
Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works?
NFS/NIS by O'Reilly is pretty damn good. Go have a sitdown at a Borders and thumb through it. :) Or check out sun.com since they invented it. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Hi Tom! http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ good place to start ... -- michael On Fri, 07 Nov 2003, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works?
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Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works?
NFS stands for Network File System, it allows you to mount filesystems from other machines. Rather than me spend ages typing a description of how it works (I wrote about it way back when I was Uni in a Distributed Systems exam - ah, memories...), there's a lot of documentation at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:00:42 +0000
James Ogley
Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works?
NFS stands for Network File System, it allows you to mount filesystems from other machines. Rather than me spend ages typing a description of how it works (I wrote about it way back when I was Uni in a Distributed Systems exam - ah, memories...), there's a lot of documentation at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ One addition to James' reply. NFS allows you to export directory trees from one system that can be mounted on other machines. This is similar to mounting Windows shares. NFS has been around since the mid-1980s and was developed by Sun (although other vendors, such as Cadmus) had similar systems.
If you want to share files between Linux (or Linux and Unix) systems,
then NFS is the way to do it. But, if you want to share files with a
Windows box then use Samba. In both cases the client machine mounts the
exported directory as a file system. While Windows can use NFS, it is an
addon where the Linux kernel can support both NFS as well as SMBFS (eg.
Windows shares).
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Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:47:00 -0500
Jerry Feldman
If you want to share files between Linux (or Linux and Unix) systems, then NFS is the way to do it. But, if you want to share files with a Windows box then use Samba. In both cases the client machine mounts the exported directory as a file system. While Windows can use NFS, it is an addon where the Linux kernel can support both NFS as well as SMBFS (eg. Windows shares).
This reminded me what Novell could give to Linux: a directory service with ACL on more robust encrypted network filesystem.... and of course in a cheap desktop box cos developers have to play ;)
On Saturday 08 November 2003 07:47, Jerry Feldman wrote:
If you want to share files between Linux (or Linux and Unix) systems, then NFS is the way to do it. But, if you want to share files with a Windows box then use Samba. In both cases the client machine mounts the exported directory as a file system. While Windows can use NFS, it is an addon where the Linux kernel can support both NFS as well as SMBFS (eg. Windows shares).
Actually for data shareing, samba makes sense even if there is no Windows box in sight. Its easier to set up and deal with, somewhat more secure, and more flexible. I don'r recommend it for system stuff, but for a data share its pretty flexible. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, James Ogley wrote:
Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how it works?
NFS stands for Network File System, it allows you to mount filesystems from other machines. Rather than me spend ages typing a description of how it works (I wrote about it way back when I was Uni in a Distributed Systems exam - ah, memories...), there's a lot of documentation at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
I looked at the above link. I now have a really bad headache. Anyone know of something for the simple man? Tom
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