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1. 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!

2. I get permission denied when changing to the nounted directory, yet it works fine as root?

3. This is a permission problem. Setup a correct permission using chmod command on exported directory. Or map user id using map_static option.

4. 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.

5. hi
   I need of the linux advance server and trubleshooting book in pdf format ver urgent.please send me in my mail id is shanmugam.jayapal@gmail.com

6. thx, dude, u saved my day.

   – 🙂

7. Hi,

   Installing nfs-common didn’t work for me. Instead i installed the
   sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-kernel-server

   That did it for me!!
   Grtz

8. 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…

9. might want to include some info on /etc/fstab here too.

10. Oh thanxs very much u save my money and of course my time…

11. Thanks! This tutorial saved me so much time and effort!

12. 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!

13. how can i access in share folder in ubuntu in client pc
    pls check it
    ok

14. the same problem as Junior: the nfs-common is not installing at:
    #apt-get install nfs-common
    i’ve tried to make un upgrade:
    #apt-get upgrade
    and the result is the same . the message for installing is:
    nfs-common is already the newest version but when it doesn’t create
    /etc/init.d/nfs-common.
    what should i do?

15. Hi, the tutorial was great, got my nfs shares mounted atomatically at start on my netbook 😀

    One thing I did notice was that my boot time has been made much longer. Is there a way to delay the mounting of the nfs shares?

    Thank you 😀

16. This tutorial work, thanks for writing it.

    Greetings from Denmark
    Gregor

17. I have a debian machine as client, and a synology NAS as NFS server.

    The folders on the NAS are protected by user/pass.

    I cannot find anything on the web that tells me how i should send the user/pass along with the mount command 🙁

    in windows i would just do \ipshare and then enter user/pass when promted. seems much easier

18. Note worked for me:
    rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out
    Z.

19. In some cases even though you put an entry in /etc/fstab the share may fail to load. The networking must all be setup before it will work.

    Using _netdev does not always work either. The boot process with nfs4 and newer distros does not wait.

    You have to setup an rc script to mount nfs shares after network setup.

    1. Had same problem.

       I know its not ideal but for starters I have put the mount command in rc.local and had to add a ‘sleep 20’ command in the line above. Which gives me enough time to login and for wifi to connect. But fails if I don’t login straight away.

       Am looking at some sort of pinging/loop script which doesn’t mount the share until it receives a reply from return ping from NASBox

       1. Ok I think I’ve solved it, for those of you that are having problems getting it to mount at boot etc. Please let me know though if this is right as I’m no expert but mashed a few different ideas/scipts together including the above steps!

          Setup: I have a small mini-tower running FreeNAS 0.7* with nfs shares enabled – path = /mnt/share1
          static IP = 192.168.1.250

          I also have a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS connecting to the same network using wifi with a folder created to mount the share into:
          /media/share1

          Initially as above had a mount command in /etc/rc.local but because of the delay in logging in and connecting to the wifi, the script failed. I added the sleep command which worked but only if i logged in straight away.

          I then found a few scripts which involved pinging the NASBox and once a reply ping was recieved then it mounted the command. So with a few tweaks and with help from friends more in the know than me we came with this script:

          #!/bin/sh

          while true;
          do
          ping -c1 192.168.1.250 > /dev/null &&
          break;
          done

          mount -t nfs 192.168.1.250:/mnt/share1 /media/share1

          Called it sharemount.sh and made the script executable and ran it in terminal (as sudo of course) and it worked! So, the next step was to have it run at boot. For this I copied it into /etc/init.d and ensured it was still executable. Then I had to update-rc.d (not sure f thats the right way to say it!) the script and make sure it had the correct run-levels. I wanted it to run after network had started so:

          sudo update-rc.d sharemount.sh start 99 2 3 4 5 .

          Rebooted the laptop and the share appeared. It even showed up on the desktop before the wifi login display appeared!

          N.B. I know alot of the scripts are being slowly moved to upstart(?) but this worked for me so feel free to use it obviously because I know I’m not the only one with this problem. But also feel free to let me know if I have done anything wrong as I am still learning too!

20. in ubuntu I cannot able to install nfs-common
    #apt-get install nfs-common
    nfs-common is already the newest version but when it doesn’t create
    /etc/init.d/nfs-common.
    I have tried even after removing nfs-common
    #apt-get remove nfs-common

    how to solve this problem.

    1. Hey C. Mahalingam
       try these steps:
       sudo -i (enter credentials)
       apt-get purge nfs-common
       apt-get autoremove
       apt-get update
       apt-get upgrade
       apt-get install nfs-common
       apt-get update
       apt-get upgrade
       then try mounting again

       Matt.

21. This is by far the best HowTo I ever seen for mounting NFS shares on ubuntu.
    Thanks dude 🙂

22. Terminal produced this:

    tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $ showmount -e 192.168.2.149
    Export list for 192.168.2.149:
    /DataVolume/tvin *
    /DataVolume/Public *
    /DataVolume/Download *
    /DataVolume/acarburak *
    tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $ sudo mkdir /nfs
    mkdir: cannot create directory `/nfs’: File exists
    tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $ sudo mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=192.168.2.149:/DataVolume/public /nfs
    mount: can’t find /nfs in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
    tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $ df -h

    Can anyone help?

    1. /nfs seems like a file. Try it as follows:

       sudo mkdir /nfs2
       sudo mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=192.168.2.149:/DataVolume/Public /nfs2
       

       1. Thank you, but Terminal doesn’t accept my passwd anymore, all of a sudden (I guess).

          1. sudo will prompt for password once in every 5 mintues. Run the df command to verify that nfs is mounted at /nfs2

             1. No, it’s not.

                1. tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $ df
                   Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
                   /dev/sda3 18263168 4084516 13250920 24% /
                   none 484552 700 483852 1% /dev
                   none 495360 248 495112 1% /dev/shm
                   none 495360 372 494988 1% /var/run
                   none 495360 0 495360 0% /var/lock
                   /dev/sdb3 692358132 614644 691743488 1% /media/MEDYA
                   /dev/sdb2 39062500 26080056 12982444 67% /media/OS X
                   /dev/sda2 57617188 26519600 31097588 47% /media/NOSI
                   tvin@tvin-Macmini ~ $

23. Thank You Very Much :))))

24. Hi ,
    I Created a NFS share in windows 2008 and i tried to mount it as in tutorial, everything went fine but when i access the directory it says “bash: cd: /nfs: Permission denied”
    I am able to see that mount using df -h.
    Please help..
    Thanks in advance

25. bigj, your sharemount script works great! I’m running lubuntu w/wifi and NFS shares. I had some .bash login/logout scripts on 11.10, but it wouldn’t allow my pc to sleep/suspend.

26. how can one browse the contents of an NFS share without mounting it? [ubuntu nfs client]

    1. Try this
       showmount -e

       This displays all of the nfs shares on that server/computer

       Matt.

27. Thanks for this helpful tutorial! I’ve gone through about ten tutorials and this is the one that finally solved it for me. I didn’t realise that I had the NFS share name incorrect, but your step above to list that share fixed that for me.

    Fantastic article, still helping people 9 years after you wrote it!

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