networking, operating system (NFS) A
protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in
RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This
protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a
de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a
connectionless protocol (
UDP) in order to make it
stateless.
See
Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
(1994-12-12)