Setting up NFS + autofs under CentOS 4

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Packages needed : nfs-utils

Server side

Edit /etc/exports : /home *(rw,sync)

Start service and make sure it’ll start at boot service nfs start chkconfig nfs on

Client side

Check if you can reach the server : rpcinfo -p 10.0.0.254

Manually mounting the shared folder mount -t nfs 10.0.0.254:/home /home

Setting up autofs on the client side to automount the NFS share :

Package needed : autofs

Let’s say we have a user “admin”

Edit /etc/auto.master : /home /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60

Edit /etc/auto.misc : admin -rw,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 server:/home/admin

Start the service : service autofs start

It should mount the NFS share.

Check the status : service autofs status



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