NFS HOWTO

Nicolai Langfeldt janl@math.uio.no

1. Preamble

• 1.1 Legal stuff
• 1.2 Other stuff
• 1.3 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. FAQs

9. Exporting filesystems

• 9.1 IRIX, HP-UX, Digital-UNIX, Ultrix, SunOS 4 (Solaris 1), AIX
• 9.2 Solaris 2

10. PC-NFS