Chapter 8. File
Sharing via NFS
The Server Message Block (SMB)/Common
Internet Filesystem (CIFS) protocols described in href="http:// /?xmlid=0-201-77423-2/ch07#ch07"> Chapter 7 are
extremely useful for sharing files and printers with DOS, Windows, OS/2, and
various other OSs . These
protocols, however, lack support for features that are required on UNIX or
Linux filesystems, such as full support for UNIX-style ownership and
permissions. For this reason, when you want to share files with another UNIX or
Linux system, you generally use another protocol: the Network Filesystem (NFS).
( Chapter 9 discusses Linux's native printer-sharing protocol; NFS doesn't support
printing, unlike SMB/CIFS.)