Empower Users with NFS: A Comprehensive Tutorial on Setting Up an NFS Server and Home Directory Integration
Data has become the invisible fabric that weaves our modern society together, Forget about oil and gold, Data is the most sought After resource in the world, Hence fueling innovation and shaping our future. Efficient Storage solutions hence are essential for businesses and individuals alike. A Network File System is one such solution that aims to provide seamless file sharing and centralized Data storage and management across the network. It follows a client-server-based connection in which the server shares its filesystem with the client across the network.
It's like remotely accessing a file system or a part of a partition from a different server which only allows authorized clients to mount it as a drive.NFS in most cases is used with TCP/IP protocol suite but it also supports UDP protocol. In This blog, you will create an NFS Solution to attach it to a client and access that drive remotely which helps in data protection and durability making it persistent to any Infrastructure disaster and you can easily keep your data safe in a protected Host as an NFS server. Later This NFS will be attached to a General user as a Home directory to take data persistent at the user level.
