This tutorial demonstrates the installation and configuration of NFS on two RHEL 9 servers, one acting as a server and the other as a client.
On the NFS server:
Install the NFS utilities package
Enable and start NFS & rpcbind services
systemctl start nfs-server
systemctl start rpcbind
Create a directory to share
Edit the /etc/exports file and add the following line
172.31.27.0 – Client IP
/nfs/shared – Directory on server that is being shared
no_root_squash – Allows the root user on the client machine to have root privileges on the shared directory.
Apply the configuration
On the NFS client:
Install the NFS utilities package
Allow the following ports on the EC2 security group
Verify if the client can access the share
Create mount point on the client machine and mount the shared directory
Verify the mount
Add the following line in /etc/fstab for persistent mounting
