Hi, I've never been using NFS before, but I'm going to need it. I gathered some documentation (Deployment Guide, RHEL 5 Unleashed, general NFS docs) and I have a few machines to experiment with. After about two hours of reading and experimenting, I must admit the documentation is confusing, to say the least. Although some step-by-step tutorials are provided, none of them work. For example, the RHEL deployment guide mentions NFSv2, NFSv3 and NFSv4... but as much as I poke around, I don't even find a way to checkout which one of the version I'm running. So... 1) Can you suggest some reliable and well-written (think: newbie-friendly) documentation about NFS? 2) Usually I start out from a minimal install on desktop as well as servers. Which packages are needed on the servers side, and on the client side, in order for NFS to work correctly? None of the docs mentioned above says a word about it. Thanks, Niki
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:02:44 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote:> 1) Can you suggest some reliable and well-written (think: > newbie-friendly) documentation about NFS?There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client mount. Set up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 192.168.0.3) /whatever/where-ever/ 192.168.0.3(rw) Start the nfs service. Create a mount point on the client "mkdir /mnt/fileserver" then mount the fileserver there. "mount fileserver:/whatever/where-ever/ /mnt/fileserver" -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 10:02 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:> For example, the RHEL > deployment guide mentions NFSv2, NFSv3 and NFSv4... but as much as I > poke around, I don't even find a way to checkout which one of the > version I'm running. >--- That's because you have to specify what version of nfs you want or it defaults to what is installed on the server. See man nfs and man exports. It is in the man page which is astonishing to me. john