The Joy of Penguins : Linux System Administration

Linux System Administration

NFS - Network File System

Setting up an NFS server

To share an NFS file system, we need to export the filesystem from the server system.
We can let the NFS server know which directories to export by listing them in the /etc/exports file.

This file contains a list of entries; each entry indicates a volume that is shared and how it is shared.
Check the man pages (man exports) for a complete description of all the setup options for the file.

An entry in /etc/exports will typically look like this:

directory machine1(option11,option12) machine2(option21,option22)

directory

The directory that you want to share. It may be an entire volume though it need not be. If you share a directory, then all directories under it within the same file system will be shared as well.

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