Network File System (NFS) is a way to share files between machines on a
network as if the files were located on the client's local hard drive.
Red Hat Linux can be both an NFS server and an NFS client, which means that it can
export filesystems to other systems and mount filesystems exported from
other machines.
NFS is useful for sharing directories of files between multiple users on
the same network. For example, a group of users working on the same
project can have access to the files for that project using a shared
directory of the NFS filesystem (commonly known as an NFS share)
mounted in the directory /myproject. To access the
shared files, the user goes into the /myproject
directory on his machine. There are no passwords to enter or special
commands to remember. Users work as if the directory is on their local
machines.
