Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a Workgroup
Sharing Files and Applications via NFS and ftp
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Sharing Files and Applications via NFS and
ftp
This section provides procedures and troubleshooting information for
Network File System (NFS) and File Transfer Protocol (ftp).
❏ NFS allows a computer access to a file system that resides on
another computer’s disks, as though the file system were mounted
locally.
The NFS server is the computer to which the disk is physically
attached; computers that use the file system remotely are called NFS
clients. Before NFS clients can mount (import) a file system that
resides on the NFS server’s disks, the NFS server must export it.
Before you can import and export file systems, you must install and
configure NFS software on both the server and client systems. In
most cases this will have been done when the systems were installed.
Use the manual Installing and Administering NFS Services if you
need to install NFS.
For information and guidelines on planning the workgroup’s
file-sharing configuration, see “Distributing Applications and Data”
on page 61.
❏ ftp is a mechanism for copying files from one system to another.
This section contains information on the following:
• “Exporting a File System (HP-UX to HP-UX)” on page 395
• “Importing a File System (HP-UX to HP-UX)” on page 396
• “Third-Party Products” on page 401
• “Troubleshooting NFS” on page 404
• “Recovering Network Services after a Power Failure” on page 407
• “Moving or Reusing an Exported Directory” on page 409
• “Configuring Anonymous ftp” on page 409
• “Troubleshooting ftp login” on page 411
See also:
• “Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study” on page 389