11.2. Planning, installation, and configuration of NFS

There are no specific installation tasks needed for NFS, as the Base Operating System (BOS) Installation also includes the default installation of network services, such as TCP/IP and NFS.

Before starting the configuration of NFS on any of the systems, perform the following tasks:

1.
Identify which systems in the network will be servers and which will be clients. As shown in Figure 11-1, CRoom and Accounts are servers, and HResources, Accounts, and Marketing are clients. Note that Accounts is both a client and server.
2.
Start the NFS daemons for each system (whether client or server). The NFS daemons, by default, are not started on a newly installed system. When a system is first installed, ...

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