Managing Network File Systems (Overview)

This chapter provides an overview of the NFS service, which can be used to access file systems over the network. The chapter includes a discussion of the concepts necessary to understand the NFS service and a description of the latest features in NFS and autofs.

• What's New With the NFS Service

• NFS Terminology

• About the NFS Service

• About Autofs

• Features of the NFS Service

Note - If your system has zones enabled and you want to use this feature in a non-global zone, see System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones for more information.