NFS Mount Steps and Troubleshooting Most Common Errors

How to NFS mount between two computers ?

Source Machine:  Physical location of folder

Target Machine:    Mounted location pointing to the source physical location

SOURCE and TARGET MACHINE

1 )   Installed nfsd from respective package manager like yast,apt ..etc on both the systems

2 )   Check mtab to mount the nfsd in /proc/fs/nfsd

SOURCE MACHINE

3 )   Edit the /etc/export at the source server from which needs to be shared

Syntax
                 Folder Path     IP-Address (rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

# Folder Path which you want to share
# IP-Address of Target machinge

4 )   check if /etc/export changes refreshed "exportfs or exportfs -a" at source computerd

TARGET MACHINE

5 )  Backup the current /etc/fstab like cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

6)   Edit the fstab file as shown below  

        IP-Address:Source-Path Destination-Path nfs rw,sync 0 0da

IP-Address : Source Machine  IP

Source Path: Physical location of file

Destination : Mount location

6 )   mount /Destination-Path

TROUBLESHOOTING

a) If the message while mounting is "nfs version not supported"

  /etc/init.d/nfsserver status  -- if this says unused or not started, Please start it using the below command

    /etc/init.d/nfsserver start 

The above command should say nfs services started

b) If the message is "permission denied"

Make sure that /etc/exports entries are correct , and dont forget to type exportfs to reflect the changes on Source machine which will export source folder to target machine

c) If Already mounted and facing issues in re-mouting then try to unmount the existing folder though its not mounted as shown below

umount Destination-folder

mount Destination-Folder

Some time it works like charm 

d) nfsstat should display some nfs server information, else there some prob in installation/starting nfsserver goto step a