1. Introduction The Network File System is certainly one of the most widely used network services. Network file system (NFS) is based on the Remote procedure call which allows the client to automatically mount remote file systems and therefore transparently provide an access to it as if the file system is local. If you still have some questions after reading this article please try our new LinuxCareer Forum . 2. Scenario In this scenario we are going to export the file system from the an IP address 10.1.1.50 ( NFS server ) host and mount it on an a host with an IP address 10.1.1.55 ( NFS Client ). Both NFS server and NFS client will be running Ubuntu Linux. 3. Prerequisites At this point, we assume that the NFS service daemon is already installed on your system, including portmap daemon on which NFS setup depends. If you have not done so yet simply install nfs-common package on both NFS client and NFS server using using apt-get tool. # yum install nfs-common The c
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