Enable NFS in Ubuntu 24.04

July 21, 2025

Motivation

A quick steps to enable NFS for test environment.

NFS Host

Install NFS

$ sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server

Export mount point

$ sudo mkdir -p /var/nfs/dpf
$ sudo vim /etc/exports
/var/nfs/dpf *(insecure,rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

NOTE:

• * means any client connect to this NFS server for mount point
• insecure is only used for test/dev environment

Restart NFS service

$ sudo systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server

NFS Client

Install NFS

$ sudo apt install nfs-common

Mount Remove Directory

mount 10.100.3.55:/var/nfs/dpf /opt/dpf

References

• How to Set Up an NFS Mount on Ubuntu (Step-by-Step Guide)

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