---
title: "Connecting to NFS shares on Linux"
slug: "connecting-to-nfs-shares-on-linux"
updated: 2026-07-01T04:29:32Z
published: 2026-07-01T04:29:32Z
canonical: "docs.serversaustralia.com.au/connecting-to-nfs-shares-on-linux"
---

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# Connecting to NFS shares on Linux

## Installing the NFS packages

On Debian or Ubuntu distributions

```shell
apt update && apt install -y nfs-common
```

On RHEL, CentOS, and AlmaLinux

```shell
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.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/image-1664429693469.png)

## 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.

```shell
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.

```shell
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.

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