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Setup an NFS File Share

Jamie Banks

Jamie Banks

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Setup an NFS File Share
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Setting up an NFS share gives you an easy way to share files between your Linux servers and clients

sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server

Configuration

sudo nano /etc/exports

Add the following to the end of the file...

/mnt/HDD 10.10.10.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,crossmnt,no_root_squash)
  • /mnt/HDD is the folder/directory you want to share
  • 10.10.10.0/24 is the IP range you want this share to be accessible from. Note, you can also share individual IP addresses in the format 10.10.10.5
  • rw means the share will have read and write privileges. If you want read only privileges then you would use ro
  • sync means that all changes to the share are immediately flushed to disk
  • no_subtree_check means that you will also gain access to any subfolders within /mnt/HDD

Make sure to change the mountpoint and accessible IP range

Restart the NFS Service…

sudo exportfs -arv

How to Mount

To mount this on a Linux system, add this to the file /etc/fstab ensuring that you have the package nfs-common installed

ip-of-nfs-server:/mnt/HDD /mountpoint/ nfs rw 0 0

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