WebNFS
The Filesystem for the Internet



Brent Callaghan
Sun Microsystems
<Brent.Callaghan@Eng.Sun.COM>


Introduction
The NFS protocol was designed as a simple protocol to provide network access to remote files. It has succeeded far beyond its designer's dreams. Now 12 years on, NFS is everywhere. It is available on almost every computing platform and is used daily by more than 12 million users. While the use of NFS is popular on enterprise networks, it is almost unknown on the Internet. WebNFS provides some simple enhancements to NFS that make it easy to use on the Internet. WebNFS capable clients can cross the firewall and access files on Internet NFS servers anywhere in the world.


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3 juni 1997