NFS HOWTO

Nicolai Langfeldt janl@linpro.no

v1.0, 1 October 1999


HOWTO set up NFS clients and servers.

1. Preamble

1.1. Legal stuff
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. Feedback
1.4. Other stuff
1.5. Dedication

2. README.first

3. Setting up a NFS server

3.1. Prerequisites
3.2. First step
3.3. The portmapper
3.4. Mountd and nfsd

4. Setting up a NFS client

4.1. Mount options
4.2. Optimizing NFS

5. NFS over slow lines

6. Security and NFS

6.1. Client Security
6.2. Server security: nfsd
6.3. Server security: the portmapper
6.4. NFS and firewalls
6.5. Summary

7. Mount Checklist

8. Exporting filesystems

8.1. IRIX, HP-UX, Digital-UNIX, Ultrix, SunOS 4 (Solaris 1), AIX
8.2. Solaris 2

9. PC-NFS