Re: mount drive through internet?
Quoting Keith G. Murphy (keithmur@mindspring.com):
> True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and
> like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like
> FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered...
>
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > You will need to set it up on the remote computer for NFS.
> >
> > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:22PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > Is it posible, and how to mount a remote drive through the net?
> > >
I can't much any resemblance between NFS and FTP.
The great thing about NFS is that the client doesn't have to worry about
the continuous presence of the server once the filesystem is mounted.
If the server is rebooted, for example, the filesystem just reappears
at the client end.
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