Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition

NFS Clients

OpenBSD’s NFS client doesn’t need any daemons or configuration. Just mount the remote filesystem. Here, I mount my home directory from my server treble on /mnt:

# mount treble:/home/mwlucas /mnt

When mounting remote filesystems over NFS, enter the hostname or IP address, a colon, and the directory. Because I have the same UID on both the client and server, I can access, alter, remove, and add files in /mnt exactly as if I were dealing with files on a local filesystem.

Verify your mount with df(1) or mount(8).

$ df -h
Filesystem             Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a             1005M    266M    689M    28%    /
…
treble:/home/mwlucas  26.9G   21.5M   25.5G     0%    /mnt

The NFS-mounted directory shows up like any other mount point.

To mount an NFS share automatically ...