General Information

Configuring group sharing/collaboration using NFS.

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

Create a group

groupadd -g 7777 nfsgroup

Add users

adduser user1
adduser user2

Add users to the group

usermod -G nfsgroup user1
usermod -G nfsgroup user2

Create directory for exporting and change ownership

mkdir /nfsdata
chown nfsnobody:nfsgroup /nfsdata

Change permissions on the directory

chmod 2770 /nfsdata

vim /etc/exports
 
/nfsdata  192.168.1.10(rw,no_root_squash)

Export directory and verify in etab

exportfs -var
 
cat /var/lib/nfs/etab

Setup the same group and users

groupadd -g 7777 nfsgroup
useradd user1
useradd user2
 
usermod -G nfsgroup user1
usermod -G nfsgroup user2

Create directory for mounting

mkdir /nfsdata

Persistent mount point in fstab

vim /etc/fstab
 
192.168.1.200:/nfsdata  /nfsdata  nfs  rw,_netdev  0 0

Mount the directory and verify

mount -a
 
df -hT