When you want to share files between Linux and Windows machines you don't have a lot of choice, you end up using Samba. This situation is very common so most Linux distributions including Ubuntu Linux make configuring Samba a breeze. But what if you want to share files between Linux PCs? Sure you can use Samba but you have more flexible and faster choice - NFS (Network File System). In this article I'll show you how to do basic NFS server and client setup on Ubuntu Linux and other Ubuntu based distributions.