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Fedora provides two mechanisms for sharing files and folders with other systems on a network. One approach is to use technology called Samba. Samba is based on Microsoft Windows Folder Sharing and allows Fedora systems to make folders accessible to Windows systems, and also to access Windows based folder shares from Fedora. This approach can also be used to share folders between other Linux and UNIX based systems as long as they too have Samba support installed and configured. This is by far the most popular approach to sharing folders and in recent versions of Fedora has been given the most attention in terms of documentation and tools support. The topic of folder sharing using Samba is covered in the next chapter ([[Sharing Fedora Linux Folders with Remote Windows Systems]]).

Once this NFS configuration tool is installed and running the following screen should appear:

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