October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
The two key files to NFS are /etc/exports and /etc/fstab. The exports file is configured on the server side and specifies which directories are to be shared with which clients and each client's access rights. The fstab file is configured on the client side and specifies which servers to contact for certain directories, as well as where to place them in the directory tree.
The /etc/exports file specifies which directories to share with which hosts on the network. You only need to set up this file on your NFS servers.
The /etc/exports file follows this format:
/directory/to/export host1(permissions) host2(permissions) host3(permissions) host4 (permissions) # # Comments begin ...
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