Ubuntu 15.04
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Configure NFS Client2015/05/06

 
This example is based on the environment below.
+----------------------+          |          +----------------------+
| [    NFS Server    ] |10.0.0.30 | 10.0.0.31| [    NFS Client    ] |
|     dlp.srv.world    +----------+----------+   client.srv.world   |
|                      |                     |                      |
+----------------------+                     +----------------------+

[1] Configure NFS Client.
root@client:~#
apt-get -y install nfs-client
root@client:~#
vi /etc/idmapd.conf
# line 6: uncomment and change to your domain name

Domain =
srv.world
root@client:~#
mount -t nfs dlp.srv.world:/home /home

root@client:~#
df -hT

Filesystem               Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                     devtmpfs  3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    tmpfs     797M  8.8M  789M   2% /run
/dev/mapper/dlp--vg-root ext4      140G  1.6G  131G   2% /
tmpfs                    tmpfs     3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                    tmpfs     3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                ext2      236M   74M  150M  33% /boot
tmpfs                    tmpfs     797M     0  797M   0% /run/user/0
dlp.srv.world:/home   nfs4      140G  1.6G  131G   2% /home
# /home from NFS server is mounted
[2] Configure NFS mounting on fstab to mount it when the system boot.
root@client:~#
vi /etc/fstab
# add like follows

dlp.srv.world:/home   /home  nfs     defaults        0       0
[3] Configure auto-mounting.
For example, set NFS directory on /mntdir.
root@client:~#
apt-get -y install autofs
root@client:~#
vi /etc/auto.master
# add follows to the end

/-    /etc/auto.mount

root@client:~#
vi /etc/auto.mount
# create new : [mount point] [option] [location]

/mntdir -fstype=nfs,rw  dlp.srv.world:/home

root@client:~#
mkdir /mntdir

root@client:~#
systemctl restart autofs

# move to the mount point to make sure it normally mounted

root@client:~#
cd /mntdir

root@client:/mntdir#
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root   4096 Apr 24 22:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root   4096 May  6 20:58 ../
drwxr-xr-x  4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Apr 24 23:19 ubuntu/
drwxr-xr-x  4 vervet vervet 4096 Apr 24 22:48 vervet/

root@client:/mntdir#
cat /proc/mounts | grep mntdir

/etc/auto.mount /mntdir autofs rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=2033,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct 0 0
dlp.srv.world:/home /mntdir nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,
port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.0.0.213,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.0.30 0 0
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