NFS / Network File System for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using This Remote Procedure Call Software to Make an Entire Internet Your Own Computer"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

NFS / Network File System is an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) based protocol and client/server application that that allows you to store files on a separate computer as though the files were on your own computer. This is obviously an important part of network operations. NFS / Network File System uses VFS / Virtual File System to apply a consistent interface to all file systems it has access to, so to it they are all local.

NFS / Network File System protocols were developed by Sun Microsystems and allows you to mount or all part of a file system so that you have access to it. Some file systems on your network may not be accessible to you for security reasons. You have access to whatever files you have clearance for, depending on your job duties etc.

Using both NFS / Network File System and NIS / Network Information System simplifies network administration to keep track of a lot of computers and the files on them

Using this, where files and data are stored are transparent to the user. You can access what you need -- what do you care whether it's on your hard drive, your neighbor's hard drive or the company's server?

Both the NFS / Network File System client and server use TCP/IP as the program that sends the files and updates back and forth within the network.

Sun has extended NFS to the Internet with WebNFS, a proposed standard now part of Netscape Communicator.

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