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Mount an NFS share.

First, create an NFS Share on your host

With OMV for example.

The location of the files to share. The share will be accessible at /export/.
Clients allowed to mount the file system, e.g. 192.168.178.0/24. Please check the manual page for more details.
192.168.1.0/24

Read/Write

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Please check the manual page for more details.

Installing NFS Client Packages

To mount an NFS share on a Linux system first you’ll need to install the NFS client package. The package name differs between Linux distributions.

Installing NFS client on Ubuntu and Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nfs-common

Manually Mounting an NFS File Systems

Mounting a remote NFS share is the same as mounting regular file systems.

To mount an NFS file system on a given mount point, use the mount command in the following form:

mount [OPTION...] NFS_SERVER:EXPORTED_DIRECTORY MOUNT_POINT

Use the steps below to manually mount a remote NFS share on your Linux system:

  • First, create a directory to serve as the mount point for the remote NFS share:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/OrbiterVideo

Mount point is a directory on the local machine where the NFS share is to be mounted.

  • Mount the NFS share by running the following command as root or user with sudo privileges:

    sudo mount -t nfs orbiter:/Video /mnt/OrbiterVideo

Where orbiter is the LAN Name of the NFS server, /Video is the directory that the server is exporting and /mnt/OrbiterVideo is the local mount point.
Can be with IP adress

 

sudo mount -t nfs 10.10.0.10:/Video /mnt/OrbiterVideo

Automatically Mounting NFS File Systems with /etc/fstab

nano /etc/fstab

Add line

orbiter:/Video /mnt/OrbiterVideo  nfs      defaults    0       0

Unmounting NFS File Systems

The umount command detaches (unmounts) the mounted file system from the directory tree.

To detach a mounted NFS share, use the umount command followed by either the directory where it has been mounted or remote share:

umount orbiter:/Video
#or
umount /mnt/OrbiterVideo

Permission problems ?

sudo chown -R root:root path/to/Video
sudo chmod -R 755 path/to/Video
Extensive explications from ChatGPT

To address this "Permission denied" error, let’s go through a few key steps to ensure your NFS share is correctly configured for root-level access between your two Debian machines.

Steps to Resolve the Issue

  1. Verify NFS Export Permissions on the Server Side

    On the NFS server (the machine hosting the /Video folder), make sure the directory is exported with the correct permissions in /etc/exports. Add or update the relevant line in /etc/exports to ensure the client machine has both read and write permissions and that root squashing (which maps the root user to a less privileged user) is disabled.

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