How to configure NFS server and client in Solaris 11

How to configure NFS server and client in Solaris 11

My Server is solaris 11 (192.168.120.10) and my client is client1 (192.168.120.11)

NFS Server :


Step 1 : Create a directory and share it in read write mode.

root@solanfsserver:~# mkdir /tmp/nfstest
root@solanfsserver:~# share -F nfs -o rw /tmp/nfstest

Step 2: Check the status of NFS services.

root@solanfsserver:~# svcs -a | grep -i nfs
disabled 22:53:07 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default
disabled 22:53:08 svc:/network/nfs/client:default
online 22:53:34 svc:/network/nfs/fedfs-client:default
online 23:06:17 svc:/network/nfs/status:default
online 23:06:17 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default
online 23:06:17 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default
online 23:06:18 svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default
online 23:06:18 svc:/network/nfs/server:default

Client Side configuration
Step 3 : Check the share from NFS server bearing IP address 192.168.120.10 Before mounting the file system.

root@client1:~# dfshares 192.168.120.10
RESOURCE SERVER ACCESS TRANSPORT
192.168.120.10:/tmp/nfstest 192.168.120.10 – –

root@client1:~# svcs -a | grep nfs
disabled 22:53:06 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default
disabled 22:53:06 svc:/network/nfs/status:default
disabled 22:53:06 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default
disabled 22:53:06 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default
disabled 22:53:06 svc:/network/nfs/client:default
disabled 22:53:07 svc:/network/nfs/server:default
disabled 22:53:42 svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default
online 22:53:37 svc:/network/nfs/fedfs-client:default

Step 5 : Mounted the NFS file system on client side successfully and unmounted it after that.

root@client1:~# mount -F nfs 192.168.120.10:/tmp/nfstest /mnt
root@client1:~# df -h /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on
192.168.120.10:/tmp/nfstest
4.6G 32K 4.6G 1% /mnt

root@client1:~# umount /mnt

Example:

sharing /data mount point as read/write to hosts nfsclient1 and nfsclient2 only. Here rw=options is a Access control list. (IPs can be specified instead of hostnames here)

# share -F nfs -o rw=nfsclient1:nfsclient2 /data

 Solaris 10 ZFS way
Similar example as above for solaris 10 ZFS file system would be :

# zfs set sharenfs='rw=nfsclient1:nfsclient2' datapool/data

To un-share the file system we shared :

# zfs unshare datapool/data

 Solaris 11 ZFS way

In case of solaris 11 the syntax differs completely from solaris 10. Here we need to name the share while sharing it.

# zfs set sharenfs=on datapool/data
# zfs set share=name=datashare,path=/data,prot=nfs,rw=nfsclient1,nfsclient1 datapool/data

Sharing using dfstab
The NFS shares, shared using the share command won’t persist across reboots. The solution to this is using the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The general format of a NFS entry in dfstab file is:

share -F nfs -o rw=nfsclient1 -d "Home Dir" /export/home

After adding the entries to the dfstab we need to use the shareall command to share the entities mentioned in the dfstab

# shareall

Now, similar to shareall, to un-share all the NFS shares in one go use :

# unshareall

Now, similar to /etc/vfstab, all the NFS shares that are currently shares are listed in the /etd/dfs/sharetab file.


NFS server/client Start/Stop
Before you can start sharing NFS shares and mounting them on remote server, you must start the NFS server and NFS client.

For Solaris 8,9 :

# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
# /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop

For Solaris 10 :

# svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server:default
# svcadm disable svc:/network/nfs/server:default