Arch Linux: Configuring NFS

[@mustaphaabdullah8139]

Brother I never subscribe to people however I listened to your live install for Arch on November 7 and your way you handled not backbiting others was very impressive behavior. Thank you for your work, I enjoy it alot and refreshy memory often.

[@eflinux]

Glad you liked it!

[@taidee]

I like I like I like, great tutorial as always from the master, the wiki creator!

[@eflinux]

Glad you like it!

[@DominikSchmid]

Thank you very much Ermanno. This is very useful.

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joatmor]

Thank you for this great video ... been struggling with setting up NFS for some time and this video was the answer.

[@gerds.9956]

Extrem good! I like your Tutorials very much! Thank you Ermanno 👍🏻

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@zedrobot5864]

Good job as always

[@eflinux]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@positivelynegative3260]

Excellent guide! Thank you very much.

[@apostleofazathoth7696]

Thanks for this. Hopefully between your video and the arch wiki entry for NFS I'll be able to figure this out.

[@eflinux]

If not drop me a line!

[@gedoconnell4832]

Excellent, worked perfectly. Thank You!!!!!

[@awfullymatt]

Thanks, helped out an Arch newbie.

[@AnoopPeethambaranAALAP]

Thanks a lot for this video. Very precise and easy to understand.

[@eflinux]

My pleasure!

[@codeIMperfect]

Excellent job explaining, Thank You!

[@chaoslimits]

Just a great channel.

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@mmouzo98]

Grazas. Moi útil e estupendamente explicado.

[@hirandcurious]

This is really nice. Thanks.

[@jahjavjaz]

Thank. Its work like a magic

[@JM-sn5eb]

You are mind reader!

[@anonymousghost5384]

First like and comment❤❤❤❤

[@voidmind]

IT would have need nice to get an explanation of why the timedatectl change is needed

[@MoGuy1978]

As usual, Great Job! I’ve never used NFS shares, so I have one question; Is there an easy way to access the NFS share from Windows without much configuration? I’ve used Samba before, and I could access the share using Explorer out-of-the-box, without having to do ANY client side configuration.

[@eflinux]

Samba video coming tomorrow:)

[@CesarPeron]

why when installing Arch one of the first steps is to activate and synchronize NTP?

[@eflinux]

The wiki defines it best: Network Time Protocol is the most common method to synchronize the software clock of a GNU/Linux system with internet time servers. It is designed to mitigate the effects of variable network latency and can usually maintain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Internet. The accuracy on local area networks is even better, up to one millisecond.

[@toniavantaggiato1104]

Hello Ermanno, thanks again for great explanation. When setting a server (and not only in this case), naturally, want use ISO-8601 at least for collate and time (YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS), can you explain in a video how to?

[@eflinux]

Will do eventually in a future tutorial. Thanks for the idea :)

[@CesarPeron]

If we are not going to connect from any Windows client, NFS is the correct option instead of SAMBA, am I right?

[@eflinux]

You can use both on Linux.

[@lakshminarasimmanv]

Can you please make a video on network management and network tools like ntopng?

[@eflinux]

Yeah! I’ll add it to the list.

[@lakshminarasimmanv]

@@eflinux thanks.

[@Goldman5800]

How about Wireguard video tutorial?

[@eflinux]

It’s on the list, but I have no ETA yet.

[@angelosdkg]

ermano i have some questions .. when u installed first time linux and what is your experience on linux in gernal .. i am wondering ..

[@eflinux]

The first time was back in the 90's, but it wasn't a great experience. I came back to Linux last year, and I am enjoying it ever since. Linux is a wide space with many things, so it is easy to get lost sometime. Because of that I focused on Arch. I enjoy building my system, but I like the fact that new users have so many possibilities to start with Linux. You can go from the total noob to a system engineer. It is an amazing world for me :)

[@angelosdkg]

@@eflinux thank you my friend ... i wanted to install some time arch to my new laptop , i saw your channel .. and then on friend told follow what ermano say .

[@EmperorTerran]

THANKS!

[@richardbennett4365]

I learn a lot from you. Thank you. Merci beaucoup! / Danke! / Tack! I never knew about _netdev; good to know. I was just thinking about that situation right when you mentioned it. I have the same problem with an external HD that I connect via a USB port. When I don't have the external HDD connected, the system does not boot, because it's looking for that HDD. I wonder if _netdev works for local disks, too. It seems for the local disk drive that may or may not be attached (plugged in), the options are auto,nofail

[@l30n.marin3r0]

sudo systemctl enable --now nfs-server doesn't return anything...

[@karandeepsingh4994]

can u make a lts version for arch installation?

[@eflinux]

It’s coming up next week :)

[@karandeepsingh4994]

@@eflinux thanks

[@GooogleGoglee]

How can I mount locally a directory that reside on another linux machine on the LAN network without using NFS?

[@eflinux]

autofs

[@GooogleGoglee]

@@eflinux thinking about this: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSHFS

[@eflinux]

I was going to say sshfs and autofs, but I personally prefer autofs, is a little easier to configure and works flawlessly.

[@GooogleGoglee]

13:45 ... Suggesting to change permissions to a directory to allow everyone to write on it is NOT a best practice and can bring to a potential security flaw. It should be correctly managed using correct users and group access policy and setting GID on the parent directory.

[@eflinux]

Sure, as I said in the video, this is on a local network, there’s no worry there. If you’re doing this on a corporate server then definitely with different permissions.

[@GooogleGoglee]

@@eflinux yes, still I think promoting good practice everywhere is still always preferable. I wanted to leave my voice there if some curious user wanted to dig into it more deeply.

[@eflinux]

The SAMBA video coming up on Thursday will use another approach.

[@GooogleGoglee]

@@eflinux thank you and thanks for the answers I have a Curiousity regarding these 2 approaches: can you map the same shared directories on the server with NFS and Samba at the same time?

[@eflinux]

I haven’t tried that, but I doubt it. If a directory Is already mounted via one service or the other, the mount for the other service will probably fail.

[@northwanderer800]

I did everything correct but now my client PC is taking a crazy amount of time to boot to the login screen but it works lol

[@druid8301]

same