2.3.8. Network file systems
One of the more useful things that can be done with networking services is sharing files via a network file system . Depending on your network this could be done over the Network File System (NFS), or over the Common Internet File System (CIFS). NFS is typically a 'UNIX' based service. In Linux, NFS is supported by the kernel. CIFS however is not. In Linux, CIFS is supported by Samba http://www.samba.org .
With a network file system any file operations done by a program on one machine are sent over the network to another computer. This fools the program to think that all the files on the other computer are actually on the computer the program is running on. This makes information sharing extremely simple, since it requires no modifications to programs.
This will be covered in more detail in Section 5.4 .
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