Everything about Remote File Sharing
Computer program for sharing resources
Remote File Sharing (RFS) is a Unix operating system component for sharing resources, such as files, devices, and file system directories, across a network, in a network-independent manner, similar to a distributed file system. It was developed at Bell Laboratories of AT&T in the 1980s, and was first delivered with UNIX System V Release 3 (SVR3). RFS relied on the STREAMS Transport Provider Interface feature of this operating system. It was also included in UNIX System V Release 4, but as that also included the Network File System (NFS) which was based on TCP/IP and more widely supported in the computing industry, RFS was little used. Some licensees of AT&T UNIX System V Release 4 did not include RFS support in SVR4 distributions, and Sun Microsystems removed it from Solaris 2.4. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Remote File SharingA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Mac answers!The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Secure Remote Cloud File Sharing With Attribute-Based Access Control and Performance OptimizationCited 13 times
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Mac answers!Bob LeVitus, Bob Levitus · 1998
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