Setting UP NFS

Tested On Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

This tutorial is aimed at setting up a NFS share and accessing it. Let get started with it right away.

Check whether you have the nfs-kernel-server installed by giving the following commmand.

# apt-cache search nfs-kernel
nfs-kernel-server - Kernel NFS server support

If you get the above output, all is well, else install the software by issuing the following command

# apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

Suppose you want to export the directory /testdir.

Begin by editing the /etc/exports file. Add the following line to allow everyone Read/Write access to exported directory.

/testdir *(rw,sync)

NOTE: Remember, there should be no space between the '*' and the left parentheses.

Restart the NFS daemon as

# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
Stopping NFS kernel daemon: mountd nfsd.
Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...done.
Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...done.
Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsd mountd.

That's it, you directories are ready to be shared via NFS. In the next part we will look at how to access the NFS share.