setting over nfs server on ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:50:35 +0100
milegrin <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> 
> Greetings
> 
> 
> 
> I have found if hav teh following, mounting remote NFS shares works
> BUT [/usr/sbin/]exportfs is missing so I cannot create new or alter
> existing shares :
> 
> 
> 
> apt-get install apt-get install nfs-common portmap nfs-user-server
> 
[ snip]

> Anyone have any idea how to get NFS working without this involved
> process?
> 

Well ....  yes.... ;-)

Is there any particular reason that you avoid the  nfs-kernel-server
package?  Here I just install that, and add shares to /etc/exports as
needed, with the relevant mount points. The server starts on boot, and
most of the time NFS works without a problem.

I have never used exportfs - I guess if you have  a large network it might
save some time, but I would think you could achieve much the same result
with a script anyway. 

Of course, you might have excellent reasons for your approach - they just
escape me ;-)

When I first set up nfs I found this URL quite useful:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/

Peter