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Install NFS and configure NFS services

Install NFS and configure NFS services

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Install NFS and configure NFS services

- [Instructor] Chances are that the nfs packet is already installed on both of your virtual machines, but let's make sure. Start both VM's now, and open terminals on them. To begin, make sure you're logged in to your rhhost1 vm, and in a terminal, type in sudo space yum space install space dash y space nfs dash utils and hit enter. Type in your password if prompted. If it's already installed it won't hurt anything. Now let's look at what's in the package. Type in clear, and then type in rpm space dash ql for query list, space nfs dash utils, and hit enter. If you scroll up, you will see a mount.nfs command, as well as a mount.nfs4 command. These are the mount commands for nfs exports. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see exportfs, mountstats, and nfsstats, which are useful for getting information about our nfs exports and mounts. Another package that is not necessary to install, but can be useful when dealing with nfs for access control lists, is nfs4 dash acl dash tools. Let's…

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