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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Book Image

Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

4.7 (7)
By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server is taking the server world by storm - and for a good reason! The server-focused spin of Ubuntu is a stable, flexible, and powerful enterprise-class distribution of Linux with a focus on running servers both small and large. Mastering Ubuntu Server is a book that will teach you everything you need to know in order to manage real Ubuntu-based servers in actual production deployments. This book will take you from initial installation to deploying production-ready solutions to empower your small office network, or even a full data center. You'll see examples of running an Ubuntu Server in the cloud, be walked through set up popular applications (such as Nextcloud), host your own websites, and deploy network resources such as DHCP, DNS, and others. You’ll also see how to containerize applications via LXD to maximize efficiency and learn how to build Kubernetes clusters. This new fourth edition updates the popular book to cover Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which takes advantage of the latest in Linux-based technologies. By the end of this Ubuntu book, you will have gained all the knowledge you need in order to work on real-life Ubuntu Server deployments and become an expert Ubuntu Server administrator who is well versed in its feature set.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Setting up NFS shares

An alternative to Samba is NFS. It’s a great method of sharing files from a Linux or Unix server to another Linux or Unix server. As I mentioned earlier in the chapter, Windows systems can access NFS shares as well, but that requires an add-on to be enabled. Therefore, NFS is preferred in a Linux or Unix environment, since it fully supports Linux and Unix-style permissions. As you can see from our dive into Samba earlier, we essentially forced all shares to be treated as being accessed by a particular user, which was messy, but was the easiest example of setting up a Samba server without also walking you through setting up a complicated Windows Active Directory deployment. Samba can certainly support per-user access restrictions and benefits greatly from a centralized directory server, though that would basically be a book of its own! NFS integrates better in a non-mixed environment.

Earlier, we set up a parent directory in our filesystem to house...