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Install and Configure Nfs

NFS allows users to access and share files across a network as if they were locally mounted. It was developed by Sun Microsystems. The NFS server exports a shared directory that clients can mount to access the files. Setting up NFS involves installing services on the server, configuring the shared directory in /etc/exports, exporting it, and then installing services and mounting the shared directory on client systems.

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Install and Configure Nfs

NFS allows users to access and share files across a network as if they were locally mounted. It was developed by Sun Microsystems. The NFS server exports a shared directory that clients can mount to access the files. Setting up NFS involves installing services on the server, configuring the shared directory in /etc/exports, exporting it, and then installing services and mounting the shared directory on client systems.

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#################### NFS #########################

NFS is about sharing your disk, drives and files with other systems
there are diff types of file systems: ext2-3,xfs,ntfs (windows),fat (windows) etc.
NFS is not local to your computer, NFS is part of NAS
It was developed by sun microsystem

its a client /server system that allow users to access file accross a network and
treat them
as if its mounted locally. e.g you can access files in machine2 from machine1

client machine ----- NFS request ------> server (this server has all the policy)
<---- approved ------- who is authorised and who is not

### steps for NFS config on the NFS server:

1. instalation, enabling the services & start them up


# log in as root
# yum install nfs-utils libnfsidmap -y
# systemctl enable rpcbind
# systemctl enable nfs-server
# systemctl status rpcbind
# start the follwing services: rpcbind, nfs-server, rpc-statd, nfs-idmapd
# systemctl start nfs-server
# systemctl status rpc--d
# systemctl status rpc-d
# systemctl status rpc-statd
# systemctl status rpc-statd
# systemctl status nfs-server
# systemctl status nfs-idmapd

# create NFS share directory and assign permissions


mkdir /mynfsdir
chmod a+rwx mynfsdir
[root@olivier-linux-server /]# ll
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 60 May 11 20:17 mynfsdir
[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# touch {a..b}
[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# touch kramer
[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# echo "testing my NFS server" > kramer
[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# ll
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 b
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 c
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 22 May 11 19:09 kramer

# modify /etc/exports file to add new shared filesystem as per below


modify /etc/exports
/mynfsdir 192.168.x.x rw , sync, no_root_quash) = for only one host
[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# cat /etc/exports
/mynfsdir *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

# config explanation #
my NFS share is the directory "mynfsdir"
give client rw access
sync ==> all changes to the FS are imediately flushed to disk
no_root_squash ==> root on the client machine will have same level of access on the
sytem as root on this serv.

# then execute exportfs -rv


[root@olivier-linux-server mynfsdir]# exportfs -rv
exporting *:/mynfsdir
NFS server is READY and exporting to other machines

##### steps to configure the NFS client server #####

of coursse use another machine (in my case i used the clone of my master machine)
yum install nfs-utils libnfsidmap -y
yum install nfs-utils rpcbind
service rpcbind start

ps -ef | egrep "firewall| iptable" ==> make sure firewall & iptables services are
stopped

[root@olivier-linux-server_1 jenkins]# ps -ef | grep -i iptable


root 2337 1998 0 20:08 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i iptable
[root@olivier-linux-server jenkins]# ps -ef | grep -i firewall
root 780 1 0 19:35 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/python2 -Es
/usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid
root 2339 1998 0 20:08 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i firewall

disable firewalld from both the nfs server and the client with the below commands
systemctl stop <service_name>
systemctl disable <service_name>

[root@olivier-linux-server_1 jenkins]# showmount -e 192.168.1.85 ==> the mount from


my client server is showing
Export list for 192.168.1.85:
/mynfsdir *

# show the mount from the NFS server


showmount -e 192.168.x.x (NFS server IP) ==> show mount from NFS server

[root@olivier-linux-server jenkins]# showmount -e 192.168.1.85


clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 113 (No route to
host)

# create a mount point


mkdir /mnt/app
[root@olivier-linux-server /]# mkdir /mnt/kramer

# mount the NFS filesystem


mount 192.168.x.x:/mynfsdir /mnt/ ==> create the NFS file system (thats the NFS
server IP )
mount 192.168.1.85:/mynfsdir /mnt/kramer
[root@olivier-linux-server /]# cd /mnt/kramer/
[root@olivier-linux-server_1 kramer]# ll ==> The files i created earlier on from
the NFS server is showing
on my client server
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 b
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 11 19:09 c
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 22 May 11 19:09 kramer

[root@olivier-linux-server kramer_1]# df -h ==> verify the mount


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 2.4G 0 2.4G 0% /dev
tmpfs 2.4G 0 2.4G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.4G 8.7M 2.4G 1% /run
tmpfs 2.4G 0 2.4G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root 17G 13G 4.3G 76% /
/dev/sda1 1014M 232M 783M 23% /boot
tmpfs 492M 0 492M 0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs 492M 0 492M 0% /run/user/0
192.168.1.85:/mynfsdir 17G 13G 4.3G 76% /mnt/kramer

create a file on the client side and check if it shows up on the server side
unmount /mnt/mynfsdir ==> if you do need it anymore or just using it for testing
puposes

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