NFS stands for "Network File System". It was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1980 to share Files and Printer between Unix or Linux systems. It allows a client to mount the local file system of server over network. By default RHEL6 use NFSv4 if the server supports it.
NFS Services
NFS allows local access to remote files. It uses PORT 2049 and nfs demon. In Network File System, there are two packages required in RHEL6:
- nfs-utils
- rpcbind