NFS

On each computer on the network there is an NFS server running, starting at bootup (edit the runlevel to enable that). In Suse Linux, NFS shares can be configured in YAST (NFS server configuration) or directly in /etc/exports file. Don't configure the remote root to act as local root! Shares should be configured to be accessed only from the local network 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0. /media/downloads/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(root_squash,sync) UIDs have to be the same on all computers for the permissions to work properly.

We are accessing data from our server via nfs. The nfs exports are automounted on the nfs clients' computers. It works fine. However there is a partition (a whole drive in fact) on our server that is automounted on demand. We wanted this hard drive to unmount automatically if it is not needed to save energy and reduce noise levels. When I include the mountpoint of this partition in /etc/exports everything seems to work fine, but automounting this export on a client machine fails. It can still be mounted manually though with a regular mount command.