Full form of NFS is Network File System. NFS is used for sharing of the files and folders between Linux/Unix systems by Sun Microsystems in late 1980. NFS helps you in mounting your local file systems or drive over a network and remote \\ client hosts can use it as it mounted locally on their system. With the help of the NFS, we can set up file sharing between the cross-operating system, Unix to Linux system and vice versa. If you want to use Linux system mount on windows, you need to use SAMBA\\CIFS in place of NFS. Benefits of NFS:- You can access remote files as local NFS uses client/server architecture for file sharing NFS support file sharing cross-operating systems NFS helps in building centralized storage solutions Users can access their data irrespective of physical location No manual refresh needed for new files NFS can be secured with Firewalls and Kerberos