NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.02) January 2008

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The directory that you have unshared should not be present in the list displayed.
Disabling the NFS Server
To disable the NFS server, follow these steps:
1. On the NFS server, enter the following command to unshare all the shared directories:
unshareall -F nfs
2. Enter the following command to disable NFS server capability:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
3. On the NFS server, edit the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file to set the NFS_SERVER
variable to 0, as follows:
NFS_SERVER=0
This prevents the NFS server daemons from starting when the system reboots.
For more information about forced unmount, unmounting and unsharing, see mount_nfs (1M),
unshare(1M), and umount(1M).
Configuring and Administering NFS Clients
An NFS client is a system that mounts remote directories using NFS. When a client mounts a
remote filesystem, it does not make a copy of the filesystem. The mounting process uses a series
of remote procedure calls that enable the client to transparently access the filesystem on the
server’s disk. To users, these mounted remote directories appear as if they are a part of the local
filesystem. An NFS client can also be an NFS server. NFS filesystems can also be automounted
using AutoFS. For information on how to automount a filesystem, see Chapter 3: “Configuring
and Administering AutoFS” (page 53).
NFS Client Configuration Files and Daemons
This section describes the NFS client configuration files and daemons.
Configuration Files
Table 2-5 describes the NFS configuration files and their functions.
Table 2-5 NFS client configuration files
FunctionFile Name
Contains the list of filesystems that are currently mounted.
/etc/mnttab
Contains the default distributed filesystem type.
/etc/dfs/fstypes
Contains the list of filesystems that are automatically mounted at system boot time.
/etc/fstab
Daemons
Table 2-5 describes the NFS client daemons and their functions.
Table 2-6 NFS client daemons
FunctionDaemon Name
Supports record lock and share lock operations on the NFS files.
rpc.lockd
Maintains a list of clients that have performed the file locking operation over
NFS against the server. These clients are monitored and notified in the event of
a system crash.
rpc.statd
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