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<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>[email protected]</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit>
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<para>Sun's <acronym>NFS</acronym> protocol provides transparent remote access to shared file systems across networks. The <acronym>NFS</acronym> protocol is designed to be machine, operating system, network architecture, and transport protocol independent. This independence is achieved through the use of Remote Procedure Call (<acronym>RPC</acronym>) primitives built on top of an eXternal Data Representation (<acronym>XDR</acronym>). </para>
<para>The supporting MOUNT protocol performs the operating system-specific functions that allow clients to attach remote folder trees to a point within the local file system. The mount process also allows the server to grant remote access privileges to a restricted set of clients via export control.</para>
<para>The Lock Manager provides support for file locking when used in the <acronym>NFS</acronym> environment. The Network Lock Manager (<acronym>NLM</acronym>) protocol isolates the inherently stateful aspects of file locking into a separate protocol.</para>
<para>Source: <ulink url="http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/nfs.htm"> http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/nfs.htm</ulink> </para>
<para>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/nfs">nfs</ulink>. </para>
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