JSP - Johnson's Server Project
SERVER - NSF - Access Remote UNIX Directories

NFS allows you to attach to another UNIX computer merely by mounting a directory from that computer (the server) on your machine (the client).

Any and all of the UNIX computers on the network can act as servers and also as clients. The server just happens to contain the directory the client wants.

First configure the server:
edit /etc/rc.conf.local by enabling the following options:
portmap_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"   ;(starts nfsd and mountd)

ps -ax should show portmap mountd and nfsd

You also need to define the directories that are to be made available for export in the /etc/exports file:
For example, to export /pub/home, add the line
/pub/home
to the /etc/exports file

Now tell mountd to re-read the exports file, either by rebooting or by
killall -1 mountd

Any problems will appear in /var/log/messages
(For example, symlinks cannot be used by exports)

At the client end:
To access /pub/home on the computer you were just working on (hostname = server, ip address = 192.168.1.5)

First make sure you have a directory to be used
cd /
mkdir homeplate

then mount it
mount server:/pub/home homeplate
or
mount 192.168.1.5:/pub/home homeplate

Now everythine on /pub/home on the server computer will appear on /homeplate on the client computer.

You can lose the network connection for a while, or have the server reboot, and the client will not "crash", although the server's files won't be available until the server is again available.