How to create an NFS Server and mount a share to another Linux server

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Situation

Resolution

How to create an NFS Server to export or share a directory:

YaST | Network Services | NFS Server, select Start
Click Next.
Select Add Directory, provide the local directory path to export.
Configure Options (for root and r/w access):
Replace root_squash with no_root_squash and ro with rw
Click Finish.

How to map an NFS Share (Linux), select from the following options:

(option 1) To setup NFS Client from YaST:

YaST | Network Services | NFS Client, select Add
Provide the NFS Server Hostname or Network Address
Click on Select to provide the Remote Directory
Provide a Mount point (local directory)
Click OK and OK

(option 2) To temporarily mount, from a terminal window (one-time mount):
mount <hostServer>:/share <localMountPoint>
Note: The local mount point directory must already be created.
(option 3) To permanently mount, use fstab (automatically mounts on boot), add the following line in /etc/fstab:
<hostServer>:/share <localMountPoint> nfs defaults 0 0
Note: /mnt/nfs/customers directory must already be created.

Cause

Additional Information

See Open SuSE documentation for more details.

To restart NFS Service:
rcnfsserver restart

To restart NFS Client:
rcnfs restart

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