NFS HOWTO : Setting up a NFS server : First step
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3.2. First step

Before we can do anything else we need a NFS server set up. If you're part of a department or university network there are likely numerous NFS servers already set up. If they will let you get access to them, or indeed, if you're reading this HOWTO to get access to one of them you obviously don't need to read this section and can just skip ahead to the section on setting up a NFS client

If you need to set up a non-FreeBSD box as server you will have to read the system manual(s) to discover how to enable NFS serving and export of file systems through NFS. There is a separate section in this HOWTO on how to do it on many different systems. After you have figured all that out you can continue reading the next section of this HOWTO. Or read more of this section since some of the things I will say are relevant no matter what kind of machine you use as server.

Those of you still reading will need to set up a number of programs.


NFS HOWTO : Setting up a NFS server : First step
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