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Understanding NFS

Posted by michael on from the things-man-was-not-meant-to-know dept.

LiquidPC writes: "ONLamp.com's Big Scary Daemons section has yet another great new BSD article, this one on Understanding NFS and using it in FreeBSD."

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  1. NFS does have problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I used Windows 95 NFS clients with a Linux server about 3 years ago and had some interesting problems occur. I know that it is dated info but it would be nice to know if these concerns have been addressed:


    1. It's difficult to find a good Windows based NFS client. I was using time limited demo clients for an educational setting and they would cause all sorts of problems like locking up of Win95 - yeah I know, its probably Win95. How has it changed for Windows now?


    2. I had a big security concern that anyone who had a laptop with Unix loaded and running nfsclient would be able to log in with root privileges. You needed root access on the client not on the server and then you could su to any user.


    I can see now that with the widespread use of DHCP servers, that restricting access to IP addresses won't work.