**Add the NFS shares to the /etc/exports file**

<code>nano /etc/exports</code>

<code>/nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)</code>

**Start the NFS and RPC daemons**

<code>chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd</code>
<code>chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc</code>
<code>/etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd start</code>
<code>/etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start</code>

**Export the shares**

<code>exportfs -a</code>

Check to see if the shares are being shared

<code>exportfs</code>



=====mount nfs shares=====




__Client Setup__

Create the mount point

<code>mkdir /mnt/nfs_share</code>

Start the RPC daemon

<code>chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc
/etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start</code>

Mounting

On the CLIENT machine we'll cover 2 options here: manually mounting and auto-mount at boot

__MANUALLY MOUNT__

<code>mount my.nfs.server:/nfs_share /mnt/nfs_share</code>

AUTO-MOUNT AT BOOT
Add the mount command to /etc/fstab

<code>nano /etc/fstab</code>

<code>my.nfs.server:/nfs_share /mnt/nfs_share nfs rw,defaults 0 0</code>


NOTE ABOUT AUTO_MOUNTING
If you mount at boot and the server machine is unavailable, it will cause your client machine to take a long time to boot as the NFS client will make multiple attempts to connect and you will have to wait for it to time-out for each attampt.