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Network File System Protocol

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ALSO CALLED: NFS, Distributed File System Protocol
DEFINITION: The Network File System (NFS) is a client/server application 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 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  … 
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DFS Changes in Windows Server 2008, Improvements and Best Practices
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EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: DFS has undergone incremental changes, all offering a basic solution for file management across LANs and WANs but the story is incomplete. In this E-Guide, brought to you by SearchWindowsServer.com and Peer Software, learn what improvements have been made to DFS in Windows Server 2008 R2 and what problems still exist.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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TOPICS:  Data Replication | Data Storage | Distributed Data Management | File Management Programs | File Server Software | LAN | Network File System Protocol | Remote Computing | Server Virtualization | WAN | Windows Server Software
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NETWORK FILE SYSTEM PROTOCOL DEFINITION (continued): …  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.)NFS was developed by Sun Microsystems and has been designated a file server standard. Its protocol uses the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) method of communication between computers. You can install NFS on Windows 95 and some other operating systems using products like Sun's Solstice Network Client.Using NFS, the user or a system administrator can mount all or a portion of a file system (which is a portion of the hierarchical tree … 
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