NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.03) August 2008

Table of Contents
Preface: About This Document ......................................................................................................11
Intended Audience.............................................................................................................11
Publishing History..............................................................................................................11
What's in This document....................................................................................................12
Typographical Conventions..........................................................................................12
HP Encourages Your Comments........................................................................................12
1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................13
ONC Services Overview.....................................................................................................13
Network File System (NFS)................................................................................................14
How NFS works............................................................................................................14
NFS Services.............................................................................................................14
NFS Shared Filesystems...........................................................................................14
NFS Servers and Clients...........................................................................................15
New Features in NFS..........................................................................................................15
NFS Version 4 Protocol (NFSv4)...................................................................................15
Sharing and Unsharing Directories...............................................................................19
Mounting and Unmounting Directories.......................................................................21
Support for WebNFS.....................................................................................................21
Secure Sharing of Directories........................................................................................22
Client Failover...............................................................................................................22
Replicated Filesystems.............................................................................................23
Enhanced NFS Logging.................................................................................................23
IPv6 Support..................................................................................................................23
2 Configuring and Administering NFS Services..............................................................................25
Prerequisites .......................................................................................................................25
Verifying Network Connectivity...................................................................................25
Verifying User IDs and Group IDs Setup......................................................................25
Verifying Group Restrictions ........................................................................................26
Configuring and Administering an NFS Server.................................................................27
NFS Configuration Files and Daemons.........................................................................28
Configuring the NFSv4 Server Protocol Version .........................................................29
Enabling an NFS Server ................................................................................................29
Sharing Directories with NFS Clients...........................................................................30
Sharing a directory with NFS Clients......................................................................33
Examples for Sharing directories ............................................................................34
Secure Sharing of Directories .......................................................................................35
Secure NFS Setup with Kerberos.............................................................................36
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