Web Developer must know -File Sharing Protocol Filesystem- NFS, SMB, AFP and FTP

 

 

File sharing protocols: Application Layer
Protocol	Description
SMB (Server Message Block)	Supported by Microsoft Windows computers and sometimes by Mac OS X protocol is enabled by default. It is sometimes referred to as the CIFS (Common Internet File Service) file-sharing protocol.   SMB uses TCP/IP.
NFS (Network File Service)	Linux and Unix computers use NFS. Mac OS X users can access NFS shared folders through console shell access. UDP and TCP and NFS v4 over TCP.
AFP (Apple File Protocol)	Mac OS X computers use AFP.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and FTPS (FTP with SSL encryption)	Many public file upload and download sites use FTP.
Rsync	Fast file-transfer protocol that uses a delta-transfer algorithm that sends only the differences between the source file and the existing file.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol and HTTPS (HTTP with SSL encryption)	Used on the World Wide Web.
SSH( Secure Socket Shell	Remote access to machine vis SSH connection.