How To Setup Nfs Service On Linux

How to setup NFS service on Linux (SuSE)

Server part: 1. First you need to install/enable all NFS related services (client and server). In case server is not available, go to Yast/System and select system services. In this list, ensure that the various NFS services are installed and set up to start every reboot. 2. Start up Yast/Network Services and NFS Server on the system you want to serve up files. Ensure "Start up" is enabled. 3. Define your NFS-exports in /etc/exports, e.g. /export/home / 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,subtree_check) /export/home2 *(rw,sync,no_root_squash, no_all_squash,subtree_check) Let the NFS-server use the new config exportfs –r Also, you may restart the service (service nfsserver restart) You can view your NFS-exports issuing the commands: exportfs and showmount. In case showmount mentions problems, also configure /etc/hosts.allow (and optionally /etc/hosts.deny) # ALL: 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 # 4. Finally, make sure that you have changed the access rights and user/group ownership in order to be able to write in the mount.

Client part: 1. You can just give: mount –t nfs ip-or-name-of-server:/path /local_path 2. In order to make the mount permanent (valid after reboot as well), edit the /etc/fstab file and add the line: ip-or-name-of-server:/path

/local_path

nfs

auto,noexec,rw,intr

00

Then restart the nfs service.

Appendix: Link to fstab parameters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab Helpful sources: http://hannibal.solstice.nl/hannibalwiki/doku.php?id=hannibal:fileserver