Posts

Showing posts with the label NFS

Configure an NFS Server with YAST tool

Image
Configure an NFS Server with YaST: To use YaST to configure the NFS server, start YaST and then select Network Services > NFS Server. You can also start the NFS Server module directly by entering in a terminal window as root yast2 nfs-server. The following appears: Select Start in the upper part of the dialog. The lower part is only active if the firewall is activated. In this case you can open the ports necessary for NFS by selecting Open Port in Firewall. Continue by selecting Next. A Directories to Export dialog appears: Add a directory for export by selecting Add Directory; then enter or browse to and select a directory. The following dialog appears: Under Host Wild Card, this dialog lets you configure the host or hosts that should have access to the directory. You can define a single host, netgroups, wildcards, and IP networks. Now you need to set permission options. The most commonly-used options include the following: ro : File system is...

NFS Configuration on SUSE Linux

Image
NFS stands for Network File System. Used for file sharing between *nix machines only. If you want to share files between Windows and Unix machines then you need to use SAMBA for that. Server Side Configuration: To check nfs packages are installed on the server machine use this command on terminal   #rpm -qa |grep nfs Configure Host File: #cd /etc /etc # vi hosts Add IP addresses of all machines in hosts file with full qualified domain name 192.168.0.1     ws1.pim     ws1      ws1 is machine name & pim is domain name 92.168.0.2    ws2.pim     ws2 Save and close hosts file. Now restart the services of network as shown below. Following file needs to be configured on the Server machine on which you want to share the directories.  # /etc/exports The format of this file is: DirectoryPath           ...