General Information

Creating NFS shares on a server and connecting to them via a client.

Checklist

• Enterprise Linux 6/7
• Two systems (server and client)

• Install required package

  yum install nfs-utils

• Start and enable the NFS Server

  systemctl start nfs-server
  systemctl enable nfs-server

• Create your share directory structure

  mkdir -p /data/share1

• Create an export line to share the directory

  vim /etc/exports
   
  /data/share1  192.168.1.0/24(rw)

  • /data/share1 ⇒ the directory to share
  • 192.168.1.0/24(rw) ⇒ share to entire network with read/write.
    • Other ways to share are to specify single hostnames(short, fqdn, single ip), IP networks (as shown), hostnames/domains with wildcards (*.mydomain.edu). See man exports for more details.
• If a firewall is running, allow nfs(2049), rpc-bind, and mountd

  firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=nfs
  firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=rpc-bind
  firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=mountd
  firewall-cmd --reload

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