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Configuring and administering NFS
Overview of NFS
Shared resources with NFS
Mounting remote resources
Example: mounting a remote resource
Servers and clients
The administrator's role
Setting up NFS
Before you begin
Installing the software
Starting and stopping NFS
NFS and system state 3
Starting NFS
Stopping NFS
NFS as a dynamically loadable module
Using NFS on a server
Automatically sharing NFS resources
Editing the dfstab file
Controlling access to shared resources
Explicitly sharing and unsharing NFS resources
Sharing NFS resources with the share command
Examples: sharing resources
Sharing a set of NFS resources with the shareall command
Example: sharing a set of resources
Unsharing NFS resources with the unshare command
Unsharing NFS resources with the unshareall command
Using NFS on a client
Automatically mounting NFS resources
Editing the vfstab file
Example: automatic mounting
The automatic mount process
Explicitly mounting and unmounting NFS resources
Mounting NFS resources with the mount command
Hard and soft mounts
Examples: mounting resources
The explicit mount process
Unmounting NFS resources with the umount command
Obtaining NFS information
Displaying remote resources with dfshares
Displaying shared local resources with share
Displaying shared local resources with dfmounts
Troubleshooting and tuning NFS
Checking the NFS daemons
Checking the mountd daemon
Checking the nfsd daemon
Checking the biod daemon
Clearing startup problems
Clearing server problems
Clearing mount command hang-ups
Clearing hung programs
Clearing hung machines
Using NFS with Netscape
Improving access time
Mount error messages
NFS tunable parameters
Using the NFS automounter
How the automounter works
Preparing the automounter maps
Automounter map types
Master maps
Direct maps
Indirect maps
Following automounter map conventions
Writing a master map
Example: master map
Writing a direct map
Example: direct map
Writing an indirect map
Example: indirect map
Specifying multiple mounts
Example: hierarchical mounting
Specifying multiple locations
Example: multiple locations
Specifying subdirectories
Example: specifying subdirectories
Using substitutions
Using environment variables
Using weighting factors
Including NIS maps in automounter maps
Invoking the automounter
Setting the default mount point
Killing the automounter
Updating the mount table
Modifying maps
Automount error messages
The NFS network lock manager
Overview of the network lock manager
File locking and system crashes
NFS locking manager architecture
The lock manager daemons
Client-server lock requests
The locking protocol
The network status monitor