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Configuration of NFS Server
Step 1: Install NFS Kernel Server
Before installing the NFS Kernel server, we need to update our system’s repository index with that of the Internet through the following apt command as sudo:
$ sudo apt-get update
The above command lets us install the latest available version of a software through the Ubuntu repositories.
Now, run the following command in order to install the NFS Kernel Server on your system:
$ sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server
Step 2: Create the Export Directory
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/share/
# As we want all clients to access the directory, we will remove restrictive permissions.
sudo chown nobody:nogroup /mnt/share/
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/share/
Step 3: Assign server access to client(s) through NFS export file
sudo vi /etc/exports
#/mnt/share/ <clientIP or Clients CIDR>(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
#Ex:
/mnt/share/ *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
Step 4: Export the shared directory
$ sudo exportfs -a
sudo systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server
Step 5: Open firewall for the client (s) PORT 2049
Configuring the Client Machine
Step 1: Install NFS Common
Before installing the NFS Common application, we need to update our system’s repository index with that of the Internet through the following apt command as sudo:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common
# Test if we can mount nfs path with client systems folder.
Step 2: Create a mount point for the NFS host’s shared folder
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sharedfolder_client
Step 3: Mount the shared directory on the client
sudo mount serverIP:/mnt/share/ /mnt/mountfolder_client
