Importing File Systems With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

NFS server software is not part of the default installation. To install the NFS server
software, start YaST and select Software > Software Management. Now choose Filter
> Patterns and select Misc. Server or use the Search option and search for NFS
Server. Confirm the installation of the packages to finish the installation process.

25.2 Importing File Systems with YaST

Users authorized to do so can mount NFS directories from an NFS server into their
own file trees. This can be achieved using the YaST module NFS Client. Click on Add
and enter the hostname of the NFS server, the directory to import, and the mount point
at which to mount this directory locally. The changes will take effect after Finish is
clicked in the first dialog.
In the NFS Settings tab, click Open Port in Firewall to open the firewall to allow access
to the service from remote computers. The firewall status is displayed next to the check
box. When using NFSv4, make sure that the checkbox Enable NFSv4 is enabled, and
that the NFSv4 Domain Name contains the same value as used by the NFSv4 server.
The default domain is localdomain.
Click Finish to save your changes. See Figure 25.1, "NFS Client Configuration with
YaST" (page 349).
The configuration is written to /etc/fstab and the specified file systems are
mounted. When you start the YaST configuration client at a later time, it also reads the
existing configuration from this file.
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