NFS consists of:
- a client that requests that a remote filesystem be grafted onto its local namespace
- a server that responds to client requests, enabling the clients to access
filesystems as NFS mountpoints
Note:
The procedures used in QNX Neutrino for setting up clients and servers may differ
from those used in other implementations. To set up clients and servers
on a non-QNX Neutrino system, see the vendor's documentation and examine the
initialization scripts to see how the various programs are started on
that system.
It's actually the clients that do the work required to convert the generalized
file access that servers provide into a file access method that's
useful to applications and users.