About Administering Network File Systems

Your responsibilities as an NFS administrator depend on your site's requirements and your role as a network administrator. If you are responsible for all the systems on your local network, you might be responsible for determining the following:

• Which systems can serve as dedicated servers

• Which systems can serve as both servers and clients

• Which systems serve as clients only

Maintaining a server after it has been set up involves the following tasks:

• Sharing and unsharing file systems as necessary

• Modifying administrative files to update the lists of file systems your system mounts automatically

• Checking the status of the network

• Diagnosing and fixing NFS-related problems as they arise

• Setting up maps for autofs

A system can be both a server and a client. So, a system can be used to share local file systems with remote systems and to mount remote file systems.