Connecting to NFS shares on Linux

  • Updated on Feb 27, 2023
  • Published on Oct 11, 2022
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Installing the NFS packages

On Debian or Ubuntu distributions

apt update && apt install -y nfs-common

On RHEL, CentOS, and AlmaLinux

yum install -y nfs-utils

Authenticating IPs for the NFS share

Authenticating your server for the NFS share will require setting which IP addresses are allowed to access the share.  These IPs can be set in your mySAU portal on the Manage NFS page associated with your NFS share.  

Manually mounting the NFS shares

First, well create a mount point for the NFS.  In this example the mount point will be /mnt/nfs. The mount point you use can be any directory on the servers file system.

mkdir -p /mnt/nfs

In order to temporarily mount your NFS share on your Linux server, run the following command.  Replace <ip-to-nfs-share> with the IP for your NFS share, which will be located in your mySAU portal in the Manage NFS section.  In this example, we are using cid-XXX-SAU-YYYYY-NS as the remote NFS mount.  You will find the name for your NFS mount in the same section of the mySAU portal used to manage authenticated IPs.

mount -t nfs4 <ip-to-nfs-share>:/cid-XXX-SAU-YYYYY-NS /mnt/nfs

Automatically mounting the NFS share

In order to mount the NFS share so that it will remain persistent after a reboot you will need to add the following line to your /etc/fstab file.  Similar to the manual mounting example above, the <ip-to-nfs-share> and the remote NFS mount name will be found in the Manage NFS section of your mySAU portal.

<ip-to-nfs-share>:/cid-XXX-SAU-YYYYY-NS /mnt/nfs nfs4 intr,timeo=100,_netdev,rw 0 0