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NAS: How does a client access files?
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How does NAS appear to machines accessing files from it?"
How does
network attached storage (NAS) appear to machines accessing files from it? Is it visible like mounted
volumes or shared folders?
A NAS device is really a remote
file system that can be communicated with using a protocol such as
NFS or
CIFS. A local file access is "redirected" to the remote file system (NAS) by using the access protocol,
TCP (sometimes UDP) and
IP over
Ethernet.
The client that is accessing the NAS has to mount the remote file system or establish a share. The file structures in the mounted file system will then be used like a local file system.
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