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Ubuntu Linux uses Network File System (NFS) to allow the file system on one Linux computer to be accessed on over a network connection by another Linux or UNIX system. NFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1980's and remains the standard mechanism for sharing of remote Linux/UNIX file systems to this day.
NFS is very different to the Windows SMB resource sharing technology. Accessing Linux based resources from a Windows system is covered in the [[Sharing Ubuntu Linux Folders with Remote Windows Systems]] chapter of this book. In this chapter we will be looking at network based sharing of folders between Linux based systems.
