NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NFS
Preparing for NFS Configuration
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Preparing for NFS Configuration
Before you configure your machine as an NFS server or client, you must
perform the following tasks:
1. To Check the Network Connections
2. To Set User IDs and Group IDs (if neither NIS nor NIS+ is used)
3. To Ensure that No User is a Member of Too Many Groups
The rest of this section explains the procedures for performing these
tasks.
To Check the Network Connections
• Issue the /usr/sbin/ping(1M) command for each system with
which your system will communicate using NFS.
If the ping(1M) command fails, see the manuals listed below for
troubleshooting procedures.
Before you configure NFS, you must have already installed and
configured the network hardware and software on all the machines that
will use NFS. For information on installing and configuring the network
hardware and software, refer to the following manuals:
Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software
Installing and Administering Token Ring/9000 Software
Installing and Administering FDDI/9000 Software
To Set User IDs and Group IDs (if neither NIS nor
NIS+ is used)
• Create one /etc/passwd file and one /etc/group file that contain all
the users and groups on the network, and then copy these files to all
the machines on the network.
or
• Edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files on each machine to
ensure that the following conditions are true: