How to Install and Configure an NFS Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted by linuxize on Jun 24, 2019 5:41 AM EDT
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Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol that allows you to share remote directories over a network. With NFS, you can mount remote directories on your system and work with files on a remote machine as if they were local files.

NFS protocol is not encrypted by default and unlike Samba, it does not provide user authentication. Access to the server is restricted by the clients IP addresses or hostnames.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to set up an NFSv4 Server on Ubuntu 18.04. We’ll also show you how to mount an NFS file system on the client.

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