{"id":398,"date":"2014-08-06T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicktailor.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2014-08-06T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T22:15:34","slug":"how-to-setup-a-nfs-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/how-to-setup-a-nfs-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup a NFS server on Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEBIAN SETUP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure you have NFS server support in your server’s kernel (kernel module named “knfsd.ko” under your \/lib\/modules\/uname -r\/ directory structure)<\/p>\n

$ grep NFSD \/boot\/config-`uname -r`<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

or similar (wherever you’ve stashed your config file, for example, perhaps in \/usr\/src\/linux\/.config.)<\/p>\n

There are at ltwo mainstream NFS server implementations that people use (excluding those implemented in Python and similar): one implemented in user space, which is slower however easier to debug, and the other implemented in kernel space, which is faster.\u00a0Below shows the setup of the kernel-space one. If you wish to use the user-space server, then install the similarly-named package.<\/p>\n

First, the packages to begin with:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0$ aptitude install nfs-kernel-server portmap<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note that portmap defaults to only listening for NFS connection attempts on 127.0.0.1 (localhost), so if you wish to allow connections on your local network, then you need to edit \/etc\/default\/portmap, to comment out the “OPTIONS” line. Also, we need to ensure that the \/etc\/hosts.allow file allows connections to the portmap port. For example:<\/em><\/p>\n

    2. \u00a0 Now run the following commands. This will edit the portmap configuration file and all
    \nthe subnet in your hosts.allow for which ever subnet is nfs server is on<\/p>\n