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# NAS glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

There are a few terms you need to know to use NAS. The terms and their descriptions are as follows.

### Classic environment

A platform that does not provide VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), a customer-only private network, on public cloud

### Common Internet File System (CIFS)

The extended version of the SMB protocol to share files on the network, which is a standard internet file protocol that supports both the Windows and Unix environments.

### Network File System (NFS)

A network distributed file system protocol that enables the Linux server to mount and use some of the file systems on another host.

### Sub Account

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that creates sub accounts under a main account to enable permission management by job role

### User Created

Policies arbitrarily created by account users on Sub Account of NAVER Cloud Platform

### VPC environment

A platform that provides VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), a customer-only private network, on public cloud

### Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that provides storage that can be used by multiple servers connected via network

### Mount

Creating a path to access a storage device and registering the storage device in the directory system that can be used by the operating system.

### Snapshot

Feature that can store storage data of a certain point as if taking a snapshot, and recover it in a new disk format when the stored data is required. Using storage snapshot, you can always recover data from when it was saved to a desired server.

### Access Control Group (ACG)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that manages network access to the server using filters based on IP address and port number

### Access Control List (ACL)

ist of records of subjects with access to specific objects of buckets approved, as well as items of which the subjects gained access to

### Port Forwarding

A function of forwarding the communication request toward a specific IP address and port number to another IP address and port, which is used when creating a service for the host residing in the internal network (mapping the destination IP address and port number to the internal host).

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To see a full list of terms and definitions, go to [Glossary](https://www.ncloud.com/guideCenter/glossary) from the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.