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Published: 20 Jul 2006
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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