NFS -how to share a directory

[gfunk123]

I am setting up some additional space on a remote server for one of the users - I am quite new to solaris and have been advised to 'create a directory , share it ready for mounting and then mount it from the client machine.

I am fine with creating the directory and even the last step of mounting the folder on the clients fs, but how the hell do I share the foder, is there a command to do this ? do I need to do this at all?.

If anybody knows the commands that would be great

thanks

 

[gheist]

on server
1) you edit /etc/exports and mark your directory here
2) you start portmapper
3) you start nfsd -tun 8
4) you start mountd

on client
you run

mount host:/export/name /local/path

thats it - read relevand docs (man nfsd mountd exports) if something fails as this recipe is not taken from Solaris nor SunOS