Configure NFS, Samba, Automount

Question 1

Main steps on server side to set up NFS

Answer 1

Start NFS service
Create dir to share
Edit /etc/exports to allow access to NFS share

sudo yum install nfs-utils nfslock rpcbind

Question 2

Detailed steps on server side for NFS

Answer 2

mkdir /data

vim /etc/exports:
/data *(rw,no_root_squash)
or
/data Teminal1(rw,no_root_squash)
*-all PC-s
on Server pc edit /etc/hosts:
Terminal1 1.2.3.4

systemctl enable nfs-server
systemctl start nfs-server

firewall-cmd –add-service nfs –permanent
firewall-cmd –add-service mountd –permanent
firewall-cmd –add-service rpc-bind –permanent

Question 3

Detailed steps on client side for NFS

Answer 3

on server side:
vim /etc/exports:
/data *(rw,no_root_squash)

on client side:
showmount -e server_ip

mkdir /my_share
mount server_ip:/data /my_share

Question 4

Make NFS share persistent on client side

Answer 4

vim /etc/fstab:
1.2.3.4:/data /nfs nfs _netdev 0 0
mount -a

Question 5

Main steps on server side to set up Samba

Answer 5

1. Install Samba server package
2. Create dir to share
3. Create local Linux user
4. Set Linux permissions
5. Use smbpasswd -a
   to add Samba user account
   This commands creates a Windows compatible user and this user is required because you cannot authenticate with your Windows credentials against a Linux user account.
6. Enable share in /etc/samba/smb.conf
7. Run systemctl start smd
8. Run firewall-cmd –add-service samba –permanent

Question 6

Detailed steps on server side to set up samba

Answer 6

1. yum install -y samba
2. mkdir /samba
3. useradd -m samba
4. chown samba:samba /samba
5. chmod 770 /samba
6. smbpasswd -a samba
   enter password for samba user
7. vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
   [samba]
   comment = samba share
   path = /samba
   writeable = Yes
   read only = No
8. systemctl enable –now smb
9. systemctl enable –now nmb
10. firewall-cmd –add-service samba –permanent
11. firewall-cmd –reload
    frewall-cmd –list-all
12. semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t /samba
13. restorecon -R -v /samba

Question 7

Main steps on client side to set up Samba

Answer 7

1. Install cifs-utils and samba-client
2. Run smbclient -L //sambahost to discover shares
3. mount -o username=sambauser //sambaserver/share /local_dir
4. /etc/fstab
   //1.2.3.4/samba /local_dir cifs _netdev,username=,password= 0 0

Question 8

Detailed steps on client side to set up samba

Answer 8

1. yum groups install "Network File System Client"
or yum install samba-client cifs-utils
2. smbclient -L //1.2.3.4 -U samba
3. useradd -u 1000 -g 1000 samba
4. passwd samba 
5. mkdir /share
6. mount -o username=samba,uid=1000,gid=1000 //1.2.3.4/samba /share
or vim /etc/fstab
//1.2.3.4/samba /share cifs _netdev,username=samba,password=123,uid=1000,gid=1000
mount -a 
7. su - samba
8. cd /share; touch file1

Question 9

Automount

Answer 9

1. /etc/auto.master
   in this file the dir defined that automount should manage
   example, /data /etc/auto.data
   /data -dir to manage
   /etc/auto.data -file contains specs for /data dir
2. /etc/auto.data - set subdir on which to mount and what to mount
   example of content,
   subdir2 -rw nfsserver:/data/subdir2
3. systemctl enable –now autofs

Question 10

Detailed steps for automount set up

Answer 10

1. yum install autofs
2. systemctl enable –now autofs
3. vim /etc/auto.master
   add
   /sharedir /etc/auto.sharedir
4. create vim /etc/auto.sharedir
   add
   data -rw srv:/data
   (absolute path will be /sharedir/data)
5. systemctl restart autofs
6. ls / =>
   dir sharedir
   cd /sharedir
   cd /data