Checks and Setups On the NFS Server:
#rpm -qa nfs-utils ---To confirm if NFS Service is installed on the server, in the response shown below, I found it installed, if it was not installed, install NFS: yum install nfs-utils
nfs-utils-1.0.6-93.EL4
#service nfs status ---To confirm that NFS Services are running, they are running as shown below. If the services are not running, start NFS by using the command: /sbin/service nfs start
rpc.mountd (pid 26598) is running...
nfsd (pid 26594 26593 26592 26591 26588 26587 26586 26585) is running...
rpc.rquotad (pid 26581) is running...
Edit the /etc/exports file and include the Folder to be shared, following are the details of /etc/exports after the change:
/NFS_PROJECT/SPECS nfsclient1(rw,root_squash) nfsclient2(rw,root_squash)
/usr/sbin/exportfs -ra ---To export the added contents of the /etc/exports file. Reexport all directories. It synchronizes /var/lib/nfs/xtab with /etc/exports. It removes entries in /var/lib/nfs/xtab which are deleted from /etc/exports, and remove any entries from the kernel export table which are no longer valid.
Following Actions taken on NFS Client: Hostname: nfsclient2
Check the automount.master file for the key files, on client2 found /misc is labelled and found key file /etc/auto.misc. Edited the automount.misc and following is the entry after the edit
nfstester -fstype=nfs,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,ro,soft nfssrever:/NFS_PROJECT/SPECS
That's it, configuration is done..check it out by
cd misc
cd tester --- The NFS Share got mounted as /misc/tester..
