NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.04) March 2009

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 65).
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 2-6 describes the NFS client daemons and their functions.
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