====== Provide Network Shares Suitable For Group Collaboration ======

**General Information**

Configuring group sharing/collaboration using NFS. 

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====== Lab Setup ======

The following virtual machines will be used:
  * server1.example.com (192.168.1.150) -> Perform all NFS client tests from here
  * server2.example.com (192.168.1.151) -> Install the NFS server here

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====== Group Collaboration: NFS Server ======

Create a group
<code bash>
groupadd -g 7777 nfsgroup
</code>

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Add users
<code bash>
adduser user1
adduser user2
</code>

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Add users to the group
<code bash>
usermod -G nfsgroup user1
usermod -G nfsgroup user2
</code>

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Create directory for exporting and change ownership
<code bash>
mkdir /nfsdata
chown nfsnobody:nfsgroup /nfsdata
</code>

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Change permissions on the directory
<code bash>
chmod 2770 /nfsdata
</code>

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<code bash>
vim /etc/exports

/nfsdata  192.168.1.10(rw,no_root_squash)
</code>

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Export directory and verify in etab
<code bash>
exportfs -var

cat /var/lib/nfs/etab
</code>

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====== Group Collaboration: NFS Client ======

Setup the same group and users
<code bash>
groupadd -g 7777 nfsgroup
useradd user1
useradd user2

usermod -G nfsgroup user1
usermod -G nfsgroup user2
</code>

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Create directory for mounting
<code bash>
mkdir /nfsdata
</code>

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Persistent mount point in fstab
<code bash>
vim /etc/fstab

192.168.1.200:/nfsdata  /nfsdata  nfs  rw,_netdev  0 0
</code>

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Mount the directory and verify
<code bash>
mount -a

df -hT
</code>

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