56.1 NFS Setup
Suppose alpine is the host of the home directories that are exported to cultus. On alpine install nfs-server. This will install nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common. The server provides the ability to export a local disk to other computers whilst the client is provided in nfs-common and allows our computer to access (i.e., to mount) the disk storage exported from other computers.
On alpine we then identify the folder that we wish to exort,
and to whom to export. We edit /etc/exports to add lines like
the following:
Then restart the daemon:
On velox, an earlier install, nfs-user-server was used rather than the usual nfs-kernel-server because the latter gave the following error when starting the daemons:
However, nfs-kernel-server is used on prefect which are running kernel 2.4.9 and alpine, running 2.4.16.
Errors will also be reported if you have not loaded the nfsd
module into the kernel. Be sure to add the following to
/etc/modules if you get errors:
Now on cultus add the following line to /etc/fstab:
Then on cultus you can:
You should also maintain common passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files between the various hosts. See Section ?? below for details.
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