Mount NFS drive in CentOS

The NAS has NFS enabled as one of the services. It's locked down to 2 IPs and *.z22se.org.uk

The router is port forwarding 2049, 717 and 111 to the NAS

Install the NFS services on the server

root@vps [~]# yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* extras: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* rpmforge: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.i3d.net
base                                                                                                                          | 3.7 kB    00:00  
extras                                                                                                                        | 3.4 kB    00:00  
rpmforge                                                                                                                      | 1.9 kB    00:00  
updates                                                                                                                      | 3.4 kB    00:00  
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.2.3-36.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: keyutils >= 1.4-4 for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: rpcbind for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libtirpc for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgssglue.so.1(libgssapi_CITI_2)(64bit) for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgssglue for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libevent for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libtirpc.so.1()(64bit) for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgssglue.so.1()(64bit) for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2()(64bit) for package: 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64
---> Package nfs-utils-lib.x86_64 0:1.1.5-6.el6 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package keyutils.x86_64 0:1.4-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package libevent.x86_64 0:1.4.13-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package libgssglue.x86_64 0:0.1-11.el6 will be installed
---> Package libtirpc.x86_64 0:0.2.1-6.el6_4 will be installed
---> Package rpcbind.x86_64 0:0.2.0-11.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package                              Arch                          Version                                  Repository                      Size
=====================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
nfs-utils                            x86_64                        1:1.2.3-36.el6                          base                            319 k
nfs-utils-lib                        x86_64                        1.1.5-6.el6                              base                            67 k
Installing for dependencies:
keyutils                              x86_64                        1.4-4.el6                                base                            39 k
libevent                              x86_64                        1.4.13-4.el6                            base                            66 k
libgssglue                            x86_64                        0.1-11.el6                              base                            23 k
libtirpc                              x86_64                        0.2.1-6.el6_4                            updates                          78 k
rpcbind                              x86_64                        0.2.0-11.el6                            base                            51 k

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================================================
Install      7 Package(s)

Total download size: 644 k
Installed size: 1.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/7): keyutils-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                          |  39 kB    00:00  
(2/7): libevent-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                      |  66 kB    00:00  
(3/7): libgssglue-0.1-11.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                      |  23 kB    00:00  
(4/7): libtirpc-0.2.1-6.el6_4.x86_64.rpm                                                                                      |  78 kB    00:00  
(5/7): nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                      | 319 kB    00:00  
(6/7): nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                  |  67 kB    00:00  
(7/7): rpcbind-0.2.0-11.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                        |  51 kB    00:00  
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Total                                                                                                                2.6 MB/s | 644 kB    00:00  
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : libgssglue-0.1-11.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      1/7
  Installing : libtirpc-0.2.1-6.el6_4.x86_64                                                                                                    2/7
  Installing : rpcbind-0.2.0-11.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      3/7
  Installing : keyutils-1.4-4.el6.x86_64                                                                                                        4/7
  Installing : libevent-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      5/7
  Installing : nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-6.el6.x86_64                                                                                                  6/7
  Installing : 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64                                                                                                  7/7
  Verifying  : rpcbind-0.2.0-11.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      1/7
  Verifying  : 1:nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64                                                                                                  2/7
  Verifying  : libevent-1.4.13-4.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      3/7
  Verifying  : nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-6.el6.x86_64                                                                                                  4/7
  Verifying  : libgssglue-0.1-11.el6.x86_64                                                                                                      5/7
  Verifying  : keyutils-1.4-4.el6.x86_64                                                                                                        6/7
  Verifying  : libtirpc-0.2.1-6.el6_4.x86_64                                                                                                    7/7

Installed:
  nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.2.3-36.el6                                        nfs-utils-lib.x86_64 0:1.1.5-6.el6                                      

Dependency Installed:
  keyutils.x86_64 0:1.4-4.el6        libevent.x86_64 0:1.4.13-4.el6      libgssglue.x86_64 0:0.1-11.el6      libtirpc.x86_64 0:0.2.1-6.el6_4    
  rpcbind.x86_64 0:0.2.0-11.el6    

Complete!

Start rpcbind

root@vps [~]# /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
Starting rpcbind:                                          [  OK  ]
root@vps [~]#

Enable at boot

root@vps [~]# chkconfig rpcbind on

Make the NFS directory

root@vps [~]# mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/home

Mount the directory

root@vps [~]# mount home.z22se.com:/nfs/Websites /mnt/nfs/home/

df -h to see if it's visible

root@vps [~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda              40G  16G  22G  42% /
none                1004M    0 1004M  0% /dev/shm
/usr/tmpDSK          485M  11M  449M  3% /tmp
home.z22se.com:/nfs/Websites
                      930G  420G  511G  46% /mnt/nfs/home

To enable it to mount during boot up, add an entry to /etc/fstab

home.z22se.com:/nfs/Websites  /mnt/nfs/home  nfs      auto,noatime,nolock,bg,nfsvers=3,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

This is now working as a mounted drive

root@vps [~]# cd /mnt/nfs/home/
root@vps [/mnt/nfs/home]# ls -hl
total 316M
drwxrwx---+ 7 root users 4.0K Oct 24 18:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4.0K Oct 24 18:27 ../
drwxrwx---+ 2 root users  21 Sep 26  2012 .AppleDesktop/
drwxrwx---+ 3 root users 4.0K Oct  7 03:31 Databases/
drwxrwx---+ 3 root users  25 Sep 26  2012 Network\ Trash\ Folder/
drwxrwx---+ 3 root users  25 Sep 26  2012 Temporary\ Items/
drwxrwx---+ 2 root root    6 Oct 24 18:32 VPSBackup/
-rw-rwx---+ 1 root users 316M Sep 17 08:59 backup-9.17.2013_08-58-42_pure1.tar.gz*
root@vps [/mnt/nfs/home]#