Comments on Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On OpenSUSE 11.3

Most of it is the same on Ubuntu / Debian just exchange "yast2 -i" for "apt-get install". You should also be able to skip "chkconfig --add nfsserver". It's been awhile since I last installed NFS but that should be all the changes you need.

I liked this walkthrough but would love to see the same this for a ubuntu server/client set up. Hopefully I can carry over some of this to help with my current ubuntu setup.

Thanks bud, great article! I had to replace yast2 for zypper, but otherwise great!

One thing, though -- if you're absent-minded, as I am, you may spend half a day trying to figure out why the mount operation sin step 4 times out even though the two machines can ping each other, before you remember to change your firewall settings to allow NIFS access on the ports it needs.

Recently I discovered autofs and it's ability to automount nfs shares when the user tries to access it.

 Install autofs and in /etc/auto.master uncomment "#/net -hosts"

The system will now automatically access any system with it's name in the hosts file

For example '$ls /net/falko' will mount 192.168.0.100 right away (assuming /etc/hosts contains the line '192.168.0.100 falko'). 

I prefer that over boot time mounts in fstab.

Very, very nice. Thanks for your time

Please i need help, this is a copy-paste from the terminal, i am using OpenSuse

client1:~ # yast2 -i nfs-kernel-server

client1:~ # chkconfig --add nfsserver

nfsserver: unknown service

Could someone tell me why do i get this, and how to fix it?

Thank you

Hi my NFS server and client both are suse 11.When i tried to mount  from client i am getting error.

mount -t nfs4 10.11.1.5:/usr/sap/trans/ /usr/sap/transnfs/
mount.nfs4: No such device