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Set up an NFS server

Set up an NFS server - Linux Tutorial

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Set up an NFS server

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- [Instructor] NFS, or Network File System, provides a way of sharing files across the network. NFS operates a little bit differently than some other file sharing protocols. Rather than providing access control based on user accounts, we control access based on the client system's IP address and a directory that's shared through NFS, what's referred to as an export, mounted to the file system just like any other local file system. You can think of NFS as acting kind of like an ethernet flash drive. Because NFS works like part of the local file system, whatever permissions there are on files and directories in an export, that's what the client system will see. On Linux systems, the permissions are based on the numeric user ID and group ID, and for that reason, it's pretty important for the accounts on the server and on the client to match up exactly. We can do this manually or through a directory service like LDAP. For this…

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