Accessing NFS shares

Description of workflow

Preconditions: A functional LAN. A Devuan host with a NFS server A Devuan host with a NFS client

Access to a remote host's sharable part of it's filesystem.

Devuan packages

Using autofs to mounf NFS shares

Related workflows

Access filesystem at portable storage devices.

Links and references

autofs - how it works

wikipedia/NFS

Description of the use case

Assuming a LAN setting we want to be able from each host connected to the LAN to access file-shares from a certain host that acts as a file server.

preconditions : test networking , test nfs

$ sudo showmount -e 192.168.1.76

/etc/auto.nfs

<mount-name> <nfs_server_IP>:<absolute_path_to_share>

enous_share 192.168.1.76:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport

-- ChomWitt - 21 Nov 2024