ALSO CALLED: NFS and Distributed File System Protocol DEFINITION: The Network File System (NFS) is a client/serverapplication that lets a computer user view and optionally store and update file on a remote computer as though they were on the user's own computer. The user's system needs to have an NFS client and
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NETWORK FILE SYSTEM PROTOCOL DEFINITION (continued): … the other computer needs the NFS server. Both of them require that you also have TCP/IP installed since the NFS server and client use TCP/IP as the program that sends the files and updates back and forth. (However, the User Datagram Protocol, UDP, which comes with TCP/IP, is used instead of TCP with earlier versions of NFS.)
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