I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.

I am trying to do an install of Slackware 8.0 on a 486 computer that doesn't have a CD-ROM drive so I'm trying to share out my CD from my main computer and do an NFS install. I'm currently running ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Fresh install of Win2k3 R2.<BR><BR>Fired up the NFS server, shared out a volume as NFS, went to our Linux file server, mounted the volume, fired off rsync -- heart ache.<BR><BR>All of the file writes ...

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

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If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.