Statement

Network File System (NFS) is a way to share files between machines on a network as if the files are located on the client’s local hard drive. It is an effective way to share files to a group of users using the same network. e.g. a group of users are working on a project and needs to share their files stored in a particular directory. In such a case, everyone can upload/share their files in a common folder( like /project) and share it over NFS.

For the NFS service, one ( any RedHat machine with the package installed)  machine in a system works as a server while others can connect to it to fetch/share files. Sharing files from an NFS server is known as exporting the directories. A X-Windows based application is available to edit the configuration file, but since in the previous post ( OD Hardening), I already mentioned that generally X Windows is not needed in production server and should be removed, I will discuss the procedure to edit the configuration file using text editors.  (more…)