Overview

NFS (Network File System) is a protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. This protocol gives a potential user on a client computer the ability to access files and directories over a network. Commonly NFS is used in UNIX and/or Linux environments to share files and directories. This is done by hooking in (mounting) a remote directory (share from a NFS-server) into the directory structure of the client. From this point on it makes no difference for the user working on a local directory or a remote connected NFS-directory.

Using NFS

To mount a new NFS-share (server-ip = 192.168.2.100, sharepoint /sharedfolder) into your FESTO SBOx-smartcamera (use directory /target) just use following mount-command:

mount -o nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,tcp -t nfs 192.168.2.100:/sharedfolder /target

Attention!! Don't forget the two options rsize=8192 and wsize=8192. Otherwise you may encounter poor network performance! A more convenient version of mounting an NFS share is to use the pre-configured mounttarget script installed on every camera.

mounttarget 192.168.2.100