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This is the BSDA Study Guide Book written via a wiki collaboration. This is a work in progress. You may contribute to or discuss this specific page at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Configure_data_to_be_available_through_NFS.html. Configure data to be available through NFS Concept Be aware of the utilities associated with NFS and the security risks associated with allowing RPC through a firewall. In addition, be able to configure a NFS server or client according to a set of requirements on the data to be made available. Introduction To configure NFS server to start automatically on system boot on FreeBSD add to /etc/rc.conf file: rpcbindenable="YES" nfsserverenable="YES" mountdflags="-r" You may add to mountd_flags the -p 800 to restrict mountd to listen on given port. To configuring NFS server on OpenBSD add to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local: portmap=YES nfs_server=YES Manual boot: Examples Sample /etc/exports configuration file: /home/exports -network 192.168.112.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /usr/local/www -maproot=0 myhost.mydomain.org Practice Exercises More information exports(5), nfsd(8), mountd(8), rpcbind(8) or portmap(8), rpc.lockd(8), rpc.statd(8), rc.conf(5) and mount_nfs(8)