Chapter 5
Network File System Administration (Tasks)
This chapter provides information about how to perform such NFS administration tasks as
setting up NFS services, adding new file systems to share, and mounting file
systems. The chapter also covers the use of the Secure NFS system
and the use of WebNFS functionality. The last part of the chapter includes
troubleshooting procedures and a list of some of the NFS error messages and
their meanings.
Your responsibilities as an NFS administrator depend on your site's requirements and the
role of your computer on the network. You might be responsible for all
the computers on your local network, in which instance you might be responsible
for determining these configuration items:
Which computers should be dedicated servers
Which computers should act as both servers and clients
Which computers should be clients only
Maintaining a server after it has been set up involves the following tasks:
Sharing and unsharing file systems as necessary
Modifying administrative files to update the lists of file systems your computer shares or mounts automatically
Checking the status of the network
Diagnosing and fixing NFS-related problems as they arise
Setting up maps for autofs
Remember, a computer can be both a server and a client. So,
a computer can be used to share local file systems with remote computers
and to mount remote file systems.
Note - If your system has zones enabled and you want to use this
feature in a non-global zone, see System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones for more information.