Nfs

Add the NFS shares to the /etc/exports file

nano /etc/exports

/nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

Start the NFS and RPC daemons

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd start /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start

Export the shares

exportfs -a

Check to see if the shares are being shared

exportfs

===mount nfs shares===

Client Setup

Create the mount point

mkdir /mnt/nfs_share

Start the RPC daemon

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start

Mounting

On the CLIENT machine we'll cover 2 options here: manually mounting and auto-mount at boot

MANUALLY MOUNT

mount my.nfs.server:/nfs_share /mnt/nfs_share

AUTO-MOUNT AT BOOT Add the mount command to /etc/fstab

nano /etc/fstab

my.nfs.server:/nfs_share /mnt/nfs_share nfs rw,defaults 0 0

NOTE ABOUT AUTO_MOUNTING If you mount at boot and the server machine is unavailable, it will cause your client machine to take a long time to boot as the NFS client will make multiple attempts to connect and you will have to wait for it to time-out for each attampt.