- If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
- (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
- on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
- protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
- the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
- client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
- programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
- support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
- Administrator's Guide, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
- nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
-
- A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
- the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
+ Choose Y here if you want to access files residing on other
+ computers using Sun's Network File System protocol. To compile
+ this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called nfs.