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Setting up NFS shares
An alternative to Samba is 
Network File System
 (
NFS
). It's a great method of 
sharing files from a Linux or Unix server to a Linux or Unix server. As I mentioned 
earlier in the chapter, Windows systems can access NFS shares as well, but that 
requires an add-on to be enabled. Therefore, NFS is preferred in a Linux or Unix 
environment, since it fully supports Linux- and Unix-style permissions. As you 
can see from our dive into Samba earlier, we essentially forced all shares to be 
treated as being accessed by a particular user, which was messy, but was the easiest 
example of setting up a Samba server without also walking you through setting up 
a Windows Active Directory controller. Samba can certainly support per-user access 
restrictions and benefits greatly from a centralized directory server, though that 
would basically be a book of its own! NFS is a bit more involved to set up, but in 
the long run, I think it's easier and integrates better in a non-mixed environment.

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