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Up: Major services in a Previous: Network loginsNetwork file systems One of the more useful things that can be done with networking
services is sharing files via a network file system. The
one usually used is called the Network File System, or NFS,
developed by Sun.
With a network file system any file operations done by a program
on one machine are sent over the network to another computer.
This fools the program to think that all the files on the other
computer are actually on the computer the program is running on.
This makes information sharing extremely simple, since it requires
no modifications to programs.Lars WirzeniusSat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997
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