NFS Server Installation

Important files for NFS Configration

• /etc/exports: Its a main configuration file of NFS, all exported files and directories are defined in this file at the NFS Server end.
• /etc/fstab: To mount a NFS directory on your system across the reboots, we need to make an entry in /etc/fstab.
• /etc/sysconfig/nfs: Configuration file of NFS to control on which port rpc and other services are listening.

To setup NFS mounts, we’ll be needing at least two Linux/Unix machines. Here in this tutorial, I’ll be using two servers.

             NFS Server: nfs.example.com with IP-192.168.0.63

             NFS Client : nfs-client.example.com with IP-192.168.0.64

At NFS Server End

Step 1: As the first step, we will install these packages on the CentOS server with yum

#      sudo yum install nfs-utils -y

Step 2:  Now create the directory that will be shared by NFS

#  sudo mkdir /var/nfsshare

Step 3: Change the permissions of the folder as follows:

# chmod -R 755 /var/nfsshare
# chown nobody:nobody /var/nfshare

NOTE: We use /var/nfsshare as shared folder, if we use another drive such as the /home directory, then the permission chnges will cause a massive permissions problem and ruin the whole hierarchy. So in case we want to share the /home directory then permissions must not be changed.

Step 4: 

#      PATH=$PATH:${ANT_HOME}/bin