Introduction This chapter describes the general concept of remote file access and reviews the concepts underlying a particular remote access mechanism Because the remote file access mechanism derives many ideas and details from the underlying OS, the chapter reviews the Linux file system and the semantics of file operations
Multiple Access Shared Transmission Medium a receiver can hear multiple transmitters a transmitter can be heard by multiple receivers the major problem with multi-access is allocating the channel between the users; the nodes do not know when the other nodes