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 ;)
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Following recourses helped me to configure NFS :)
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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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thx, dude, u saved my day.
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Hi,
Installing nfs-common didn’t work for me. Instead i installed the
sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-kernel-serverThat did it for me!!
Grtz
Too complicated. All problems with different ports, processes, firewall, SELinux, etc is just too much. Compared to SSH, I cant help wondering why NFS isn’t more easy to install and use. Think fileserver functionality should have been easier that opening programs remote!? Sorry folks…