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    How To Mount A Remote File System Using Network File System (NFS)

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    This document provides instructions for configuring and mounting a remote file system using NFS (Network File System). It discusses the key components required for NFS, including the portmap and nfs-utils packages. It also outlines the configuration steps: identifying the directory to export, editing /etc/exports to define the share, starting the nfs service, mounting the remote file system from another system, and unmounting when finished. Options for /etc/exports like rw, ro, root_squash and their meanings are also defined.

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    This document provides instructions for configuring and mounting a remote file system using NFS (Network File System). It discusses the key components required for NFS, including the portmap and nfs-utils packages. It also outlines the configuration steps: identifying the directory to export, editing /etc/exports to define the share, starting the nfs service, mounting the remote file system from another system, and unmounting when finished. Options for /etc/exports like rw, ro, root_squash and their meanings are also defined.

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    This document provides instructions for configuring and mounting a remote file system using NFS (Network File System). It discusses the key components required for NFS, including the portmap and nfs-utils packages. It also outlines the configuration steps: identifying the directory to export, editing /etc/exports to define the share, starting the nfs service, mounting the remote file system from another system, and unmounting when finished. Options for /etc/exports like rw, ro, root_squash and their meanings are also defined.

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    This document provides instructions for configuring and mounting a remote file system using NFS (Network File System). It discusses the key components required for NFS, including the portmap and nfs-utils packages. It also outlines the configuration steps: identifying the directory to export, editing /etc/exports to define the share, starting the nfs service, mounting the remote file system from another system, and unmounting when finished. Options for /etc/exports like rw, ro, root_squash and their meanings are also defined.

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    How to mount a remote file system using Network File System (NFS)

    Network File System or NFS, is a server-client protocol for sharing files between computers
    on a common network. The NFS server exports one or more directories to the client
    systems, and the client systems mount one or more of the shared directories to local
    directories called mount points. After the share is mounted, all I/O operations are written
    back to the server, and all clients notice the change as if it occurred on the local filesystem.
    NFS uses RPC for communication.

    Network File System (NFS) was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid- 1980s.
    Linux has support for NFS (both as a client and a server).

    Required Packages for Network File System (NFS)

    NFS requires two main RPM packages: portmap and nfs-utils. These two packages are
    installed by default. If you want to confirm it, you can use rpm query command.

    The nfs service script starts the following processes:

    • rpc.mountd Handles mount requests

    • nfsd Starts an nfsd kernel process for each shared directory

    • rpc.rquotad Reports disk quota statistics to clients

    If any of these processes is not running, NFS won't work. The status of these processes can
    be checked rpcinfo -p command.

    Configuring Network File System(NFS)

    1) First step in configuring NFS is to identify the directory, which you are going to export.

    In this example, we will create a directory /nfs, and this directory will be exported using NFS.

    [root@RHEL05 ~]# mkdir /nfs

    2) The second step is to create an entry in /etc/exports file. The NFS configuration file is
    /etc/exports. Each line in this file lists the directory to be exported, the hosts to which it will
    be exported, and other options that apply to this export.

    A line for an exported file system in /etc/exports has the following structure:

    <export_directory> <host_ipaddr>(<export_options>)

    Example: /nfs 192.168.1.104(rw,no_root_squash)

    The following methods can be used to specify host names:


    • single host — Where one particular host is specified with a hostname, or IP address.

    • wildcards - Common wildcards * or ? character is used to specify hosts. Example:


    *.omnisecu.com specifies all computers within the omnisecu.com domain. This also known
    as globbing.

    • IP networks — Allows the matching of hosts based on their IP addresses within a larger
    network. Example: 192.168.1.0/24

    • netgroups — Permits an NIS netgroup name.

    Important export options

    Option

    Explanation

    secure

    This option requires that requests originate on an internet port less than 1024.

    insecure

    This supports NFS messages above ports 1024.

    async

    Replies to requests before the data is written to disk. This improves performance, but results
    in lost data if the server goes down.

    sync

    Data is written upon request. Active by default.

    rw

    Allow both read and write requests on this NFS volume.

    ro

    Allow read-only access.

    no_wdelay

    Data is written to the share immediately. This option has no effect if async is also set.

    root_squash

    Convert incoming requests from user root to the anonymous uid and gid.

    no_root_squash

    Remote root users get root privileges on the shared directory.


    all_squash

    All remote users are mapped as an anonymous user (nfsnobody, with a user id of 65534)

    anonuid=userid

    Allows you to map remote users to a specific user ID such as pcguest.

    anongid=groupid

    Allows you to map remote groups to a specific group ID such as pcguest.

    3) Start the service using ‘service nfs start’ command.

    To list the exports, we can use ‘exportfs –v’ command.

    4) Mount the filesystem from a remote computer using the mount command as shown
    below.

    [root@RHEL04 ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.105:/nfs /nfs

    5) After mounting, you can use the remote filesystem locally and once the work is
    completed, the remote filesystem should be unmounted by using ‘umount’ command.

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