NFS On the server: 3 configuration files. /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, and /etc/hosts.deny sample exports file entries: /home/share 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) /home/username 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash) /tmp 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) For hosts.allow and hosts.deny you can leave them empty if you wish to disregard security. Configuration of those two files is not covered here. See 'man hosts.allow' Five daemons: rpc.nfsd, rpc.lockd, rpc.statd, rpc.mountd, rpc.rquotad redhat manual start type: service portmap start service nfs start service nfslock start netfs? On the client: