NFS Mounts

How To:

Prerequisites

A valid NFS Share must be exported on the remote file system server, and have granted your server access to it.

Purpose

You can mount remote file NFS filesystems and access them as though they exist on your server.

Procedure - Add a Mounted NFS Share

  1. Click the Icon System Services menu item if it is not already open.
  2. Click the Icon NFS Server menu item if it is not already open.
  3. Click the Icon Mounts menu item.
  4. Enter the hostname of the remote server to perform the file system mount on.
  5. Enter the remote directory to mount.
  6. Choose a local mount point on your server where you will access this mount.
  7. Choose Protocol, Mount Type, and Re-mount Options, and Interrupt Handling options for this mount.
  8. Click the button.
  9. You will see the following message at the top of the screen: NFS mount successfully added : mount point ⇒ hostname:remote directory".