I need to learn the steps to mount and use NFS

[JerrardHolland]

I need to integrate an R6000 with AIX 4.3.3 to a NAS with NFS. The Vendor of the IBM system shrugged his shoulders and said, "Have at it, we don't know how to attach anything to the system".

The NAS has an NFS, and it is mounted and running.
I am assuming that the AIX needs to have an NFS service mounted, and the NAS identified, and from there I am just guessing.

Can anyone help direct me?

Jerrard Holland
jerrardholland@hotmail.com

 

[JSiva]

Hi

Dunno about the NAS, but for AIX to mount the filesystems through NFS, just use the following

#mount <remote_hostname>:/<remote_filesystem> /<local_mount_point>

And in 4.3.3 the NFS is started automatically, you can check that by &quot;#lssrc -g nfs&quot; command.

JSiva jsnair@lycos.com

 

[JerrardHolland]

Thank you. Just one more question, can you give me an example of what value string should go in the <local_mount_point> field?

JerrardHolland

 

[JSiva]

Hi

Local mount point is nothing but a directory in local system. So when you nfs mount a file system it will be displayed in df command as:-

node1:/nfsdata xyz xyz x y z /nfsdata.

I.E.

You have a system &quot;node1&quot; where a file system &quot;nfsdata&quot; is exported (given access to other systems). To access that nfsdata file system, create a local directory in local system &quot;nfsdata&quot; (command: #mkdir /nfsdata) and do the following command.

#mount node1:/nfsdata /nfsdata

JSiva

jsnair@lycos.com