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1 Preliminary Note: Tutorial

The document provides instructions for setting up an NFS server on a CentOS 7 system with the hostname server1.example.com and IP 192.168.0.100. It describes installing NFS utilities, creating a shared directory, configuring the NFS server, enabling firewall rules, and testing the shared access. It also explains how to set up an NFS client on another CentOS 7 system, mount the shared directories, and make the mounts permanent in /etc/fstab.

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1 Preliminary Note: Tutorial

The document provides instructions for setting up an NFS server on a CentOS 7 system with the hostname server1.example.com and IP 192.168.0.100. It describes installing NFS utilities, creating a shared directory, configuring the NFS server, enabling firewall rules, and testing the shared access. It also explains how to set up an NFS client on another CentOS 7 system, mount the shared directories, and make the mounts permanent in /etc/fstab.

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1 Preliminary Note

I have fresh installed CentOS 7 server, on which I am going to install the NFS server.
My CentOS server have hostname server1.example.com and IP
as 192.168.0.100
If you don't have a CentOS server installed yet, use this tutorial for the basic operating
system installation. Additionally to the server, we need a CentOS 7 client machine, this
can be either a server or desktop system. In my case, I will use a CentOS 7 desktop
with hostname client1.example.com and IP 192.168.0.101 as a client. I will
run all the commands in this tutorial as the root user.
2 At NFS server end
As the first step, we will install these packages on the CentOS server with yum:

yum install nfs-utils

Now create the directory that will be shared by NFS:

mkdir /var/nfsshare

Change the permissions of the folder as follows:

chmod -R 755 /var/nfsshare


chown nfsnobody:nfsnobody /var/nfsshare

We use /var/nfsshare as a shared folder, if we use another drive such as


the /home directory, then the permission changes will cause a massive permissions
problem and ruin the whole hierarchy. So in case, we want to share
the /home directory then permissions must not be changed.
Next, we need to start the services and enable them to be started at boot time.

systemctl enable rpcbind


systemctl enable nfs-server
systemctl enable nfs-lock
systemctl enable nfs-idmap
systemctl start rpcbind
systemctl start nfs-server
systemctl start nfs-lock
systemctl start nfs-idmap

Now we will share the NFS directory over the network a follows:

nano /etc/exports

We will make two sharing points /home and /var/nfsshare. Edit the exports file as
follows:
/var/nfsshare 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)
/home 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)

Note 192.168.0.101 is the IP of the client machine, if you wish that any other client
should access it you need to add it IP wise otherwise you can add "*" instead of IP for
all IP access.
Condition is that it must be pingable at both ends.
Finally, start the NFS service:

systemctl restart nfs-server

Again we need to add the NFS service override in CentOS 7 firewall-cmd public zone
service as:

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=nfs


firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=mountd
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=rpc-bind
firewall-cmd --reload

Note: If it will be not done, then it will give error for Connection Time Out at client
side.
Now we are ready with the NFS server part.
3 NFS client end
In my case, I have a CentOS 7 desktop as client. Other CentOS versions will also work
the same way. Install the nfs-utild package as follows:

yum install nfs-utils

Now create the NFS directory mount points:

mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/home
mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/var/nfsshare

Next, we will mount the NFS shared home directory in the client machine as shown
below:

mount -t nfs 192.168.0.100:/home /mnt/nfs/home/

It will mount /home of NFS server. Next we will mount the /var/nfsshare directory:

mount -t nfs 192.168.0.100:/var/nfsshare /mnt/nfs/var/nfsshare/

Now we are connected with the NFS share, we will crosscheck it as follows:
df -kh

[root@client1 ~]# df -kh


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root 39G 1.1G 38G 3% /
devtmpfs 488M 0 488M 0% /dev
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 494M 6.7M 487M 2% /run
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-home 19G 33M 19G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 497M 126M 372M 26% /boot
192.168.0.100:/var/nfsshare 39G 980M 38G 3% /mnt/nfs/var/nfsshare
192.168.0.100:/home 19G 33M 19G 1% /mnt/nfs/home
[root@client1 ~]#

So we are connected with the NFS share.


Now we will check the read/write permissions in the shared path. At client enter the
command:

touch /mnt/nfs/var/nfsshare/test_nfs

So we successfully configured an NFS-share.


4 Permanent NFS mounting
We have to re-mount the NFS share at the client after every reboot. Here are the steps
to mount it permanently by adding the NFS-share in /etc/fstab file of client
machine:

nano /etc/fstab

Add the entries like this:


[...]
192.168.0.100:/home /mnt/nfs/home nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.0.100:/var/nfsshare /mnt/nfs/var/nfsshare nfs defaults 0
0

Note 192.168.0.100 is the server NFS-share IP address, it will vary in your case.
This will make the permanent mount of the NFS-share. Now you can reboot the
machine and mount points will be permanent even after the reboot.
Cheers, now we have a successfully configured NFS-server over CentOS 7 :)
5 Links
 CentOS: http://www.centos.org/

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