How to set up an NFS server on Linux?

Setting up an NFS server on a Linux system is very simple, here are the basic steps:

1. Install NFS server software package: Run the following command in the terminal to install the NFS server software package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

1. The file containing export configuration details.
2. – Mounted shared folder

/mnt/shared 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

This setup allows clients from the 192.168.1.0/24 network to access the /mnt/shared directory in read-write mode.

1. Reload NFS configuration: run the following command to reload the NFS configuration file to apply the changes:

sudo exportfs -a

1. Start the NFS server by running the following command.

sudo systemctl start nfs-server

1. Set up NFS server to start automatically on boot by running the following command.

sudo systemctl enable nfs-server

You have now set up an NFS server on your Linux system, allowing other clients to access shared files by mounting NFS shared directories.