NFS Server

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network file system (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and resources across a network.


NFS is the way of working with files on a remote machine as if they are on your local one. NFS is the standard de facto solution to access the same $HOME directories from any machine on the Net. Using it also is a good way to avoid keeping duplicated informatioNFS n from eating large amounts of disk space.

How to make NFS

System should be Yum Server or Yum Client.

yum install nfs* -y                                    (package install)

yum install portmap* -y                           (package install)

mkdir /Data_Share                                  (making Dir for sharing)

vim /Data_Share/file1                              (making file)

vim /etc/exports
(Entry)
/Data_Share   *(rw,sync)
:wq!

service nfs restart                                  (Restart the Service)

service portmap restart                         (Restart the Service)

chkconfig nfs on

chkconfig portmap on



Configuration on Client Side   

mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/xyz  /mnt           (Considering server ip as 192.168.1.1)

vim /etc/fstab                                             (To make Permanent Entry)

192.168.1.1:/Data_Share /mnt nfs default 0 0