Ubuntu Linux NFS Client Configuration to mount nfs share

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: December 18, 2007]

Since I am not networking professional I was nervous about using nfs share. Desperately I wanted to access my files over network using Ubuntu NFS. Our IT folks not working today due to weekend holiday.

Ubuntu NFS

After searching net, I discover that you need two packages to mount nfs share under Ubuntu Linux.

So, I did Install necessary support for nfs client side i.e. portmap and nfs-common package. Type following command to install packages:
sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common

Now mount server.mydomain.com:/network/officedocs to /home/me/myfiles
cd
mkdir myfiles
sudo mount server.mydomain.com:/network/officesdocs /home/me/myfiles

Note you may need to restart above services:
sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart

How do I access my files using NFS?

Just go to mount point i.e. myfiles with cd command:
cd myfiles
ls
gedit file.c

May be next time I will get my hands dirty with NFS server

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