How to configure linux nfs server step by step guide Example and Implementation

Exam question 1 Some users home directory is shared from your system. Using showmount -e localhost command, the shared directory is not shown. Make access the shared users home directory

Exam question 2 The System you are using is for NFS (Network File Services). Some important data are shared from your system. Make automatically start the nfs and portmap services at boot time

Exam question 3 Share /data directory using NFS only to 192.168.0.0/24 members. These hosts should get read and write access on shared directory.

Configure nfs server

In this example we will configure a nfs server and will mount shared directory from client side.

For this example we are using two systems one linux server one linux clients . To complete these per quest of nfs server Follow this link

per quest of nfs server

A linux server with ip address 192.168.0.254 and hostname Server A linux client with ip address 192.168.0.1 and hostname Client1 Updated /etc/hosts file on both linux system Running portmap and xinetd services Firewall should be off on server

We have configured all these steps in our pervious article.

necessary configuration for nfs server

We suggest you to review that article before start configuration of nfs server. Once you have completed the necessary steps follow this guide.

Three rpm are required to configure nfs server. nfs, portmap, xinetd check them if not found then install

Now check nfs, portmap, xinetd service in system service it should be on

 #setup Select System service from list [*]portmap [*]xinetd [*]nfs

Now restart xinetd and portmap service To keep on these services after reboot on then via chkconfig command After reboot verify their status. It must be in running condition

now create a /data directory and grant full permission to it

now open /etc/exports file share data folder for the network of 192.168.0.254/24 with read and write access save file with :wq and exit

now restart the nfs service and also on it with chkconfig also restart nfs daemons with expotfs

verify with showmount command that you have successfully shared data folder

configure client system

ping form nfs server and check the share folder

now mount this share folder on mnt mount point. To test this share folder change directory to mnt and create a test file

After use you should always unmount from mnt mount point

In this way you can use shared folder. But this share folder will be available till system is up. It will not be available after reboot. To keep it available after reboot make its entry in fstab

create a mount point, by making a directory