Basic NFS Configuration

From Genunix

HOWTO - Setup NFS (Brian Gupta - 1998)

• Major Config Files:
  • /etc/vfstab - remote filestems entered here
  • /etc/dfs/dfstab - local fs's to be exported here (if you change run exportfs -a)

• RESTARTING THE nfsdaemon:
  1. /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
  2. /etc/init.d/nfs.server start

• Some Status Commands:
  • nfsstat -m
  • /usr/sbin/showmount -e systemname (SHOWS AVAILABLE FILESYSTEMS TO MOUNT ON REMOTE SYSTEM)

• Check the entry in /etc/mnttab
  • ps -ef |grep rpcbind
  • /usr/sbin/rpcbind -w
  • rpcinfo -s systemname |sort -n

• How to automatically share your local CDROM Drive: (Assuming nfsd and vold is running)
  1. Add the following lines to /etc/rmmount.conf:
  • # File System Sharing
  • share cdrom*
• How to remotely access this CDROM:
  • mount -F nfs -o ro vjtest:/cdrom/vrts_9803 /mnt