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The original versions 2 and 3 of the protocol used User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and were meant to keep the protocol "stateless." A later version 4 would address some of the performance issues and would rely on a "stateful" protocol.
 
NFS is strongly associated with UNIX systems, its original implementation, though it can be used on any platform such as Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The [[server message block]] (SMB), a similar protocol, is the equivalent implementation of a network file system under Microsoft Windows.
 
"Network File System" is also often used as a generic term - see [[File system]] for other examples.
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==External Link==
 
* [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1813.html RFC1813 - NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification]
* [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3010.html RFC3010 - NFS Version 4 Protocol]