Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On CentOS 6.3

July 27, 2019 - Reading time: ~1 minute
  • NFS Server: server.example.com, IP address: 192.168.0.100
  • NFS Client: client.example.com, IP address: 192.168.0.101

yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib
chkconfig –levels 235 nfs on
/etc/init.d/nfs start

On Server:

mkdir /var/nfs
chown 65534:65534 /var/nfs
chmod 755 /var/nfs
* 65534 – group- nfsnobody

vi /etc/exports
{

/home 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) /var/nfs 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

}

exportfs -a

On Client:

mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/home
mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/var/nfs

mount 192.168.0.100:/home /mnt/nfs/home
mount 192.168.0.100:/var/nfs /mnt/nfs/var/nfs

vi /etc/fstab
{

192.168.0.100:/home /mnt/nfs/home nfs rw,sync,hard,intr 0 0 192.168.0.100:/var/nfs /mnt/nfs/var/nfs nfs

}