Ubuntu Linux NFS Client Configuration to mount nfs share
Since I am not networking professional I was nervous about using nfs share. Desperately I wanted to access my files over network using Ubuntu NFS. Our IT folks not working today due to weekend holiday.
Ubuntu NFS
After searching net, I discover that you need two packages to mount nfs share under Ubuntu Linux.
So, I did Install necessary support for nfs client side i.e. portmap and nfs-common package. Type following command to install packages:
sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common
Now mount server.mydomain.com:/network/officedocs to /home/me/myfiles
cd
mkdir myfiles
sudo mount server.mydomain.com:/network/officesdocs /home/me/myfiles
Note you may need to restart above services:
sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart
How do I access my files using NFS?
Just go to mount point i.e. myfiles with cd command:
cd myfiles
ls
gedit file.c
May be next time I will get my hands dirty with NFS server 
Recourses
Following recourses helped me to configure NFS 
This is a user contributed article.
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Thanks. You made it really simple for me. I am new to Ubuntu and hoping to get away from Microsoft, so long as help is around. Thanks!
I get permission denied when changing to the nounted directory, yet it works fine as root?
This is a permission problem. Setup a correct permission using chmod command on exported directory. Or map user id using map_static option.
Thanks for sharing. SuSE has a gui wizard to handle NFS client and server config. I thought I was going to have give up some features.
Thanks again.
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