sharing /home via nfs

[mlybarger]

i would like to share my /home directory via nfs . could someone give a quick example of what needs done here? i'm thinking there needs to be something in the /etc/exports file, some kind of /etc/fstab work going on, and making sure some userid's are identical on the boxes.... an example would be nice

[klieber]

Did you search google? There are quite a few examples out there...

--kurt
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[Naan Yaar]

In addition to what klieber says above, a very good reference is here. When in doubt about docs, you may want to look at www.tldp.org first.

Exporting home involves something like this:

• sync up the uid's and gid's on the server and client boxes so that you have proper file access rights to the home partition
  
• add your /home to /etc/exports on the server with something like:
  

  Code:

  /home 192.168.148.2(rw)

  
  The IP above can have one of several forms in order to specify ranges, etc.
  
• Start up the server daemons (typically through an init script)
  
• On the client end, add something like this to /etc/fstab:
  

  Code:

  <server>:/home              /home           nfs             defaults 0 0

  
  
• Mount the partition using "mount /home" or start up your client init scripts.
  

There may be firewall and other access issues that may become relevant when you do this.

[mglauche]

instead of defaults you want "rsize=8192,wsize=8192" .. this can speed up nfs quite a bit