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Using the network

Accessing shared files

Although the networking commands telnet, ftp, and rcmd provide extremely useful access to files on other machines, your network can be even more useful if you have a distributed filesystem. In a distributed filesystem, you can read, edit, delete, and otherwise access files on another machine just as if the files were on your local machine.

Your SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise System provides filesharing capabilities between other SCO OpenServer systems, via the Network File System (NFS), as well as between SCO OpenServer systems and other operating systems. These capabilities are provided by:


When NFS is configured by your system administrator on your network, you will be able to transparently access and manipulate files on other machines as if they were local to your machine.
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003