NFS Client Side

NFS clients mount directories exported to them from the NFS servers.

To verify that the server allows you to access its RPC (including NFS)

services, run

/usr/bin/rpcinfo -p server_name

To check what directories it exports to you, run

/sbin/showmount -e server_name

For correct file locking, statd should be running on an NFS client.

They are started by scripts:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs-common start

There are two kinds of mounts, we nominate them as:

Standard
Automount