Ubuntu network file sharing how to#
Ubuntu network file sharing install#

You can also create a file from the client and check if it is available in the server. df -hįilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onġ0.0.0.2:/var/assets 20G 948M 19G 5% /mnt/nfs/var/assets You can run the df command to ensure that it works correctly. That's it! Note that this is the IP of our CDN server. Now we can mount our shared folder at this location: mount 10.0.0.2:/var/assets /mnt/nfs/var/assets Let's create the folders: mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/var/assets The standard is to have the directory in the /mnt directory since what we are doing is called mounting technically.

Install the nfs client program: sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmapĪll we need to do now is create the directories where we want the shared folders to appear. Now our server application is ready to broadcast the shared folders to the client. Save and confirm these entries using the exportfs command. Here we are telling our server that a client with ip 10.0.0.1 will have access to this folder. Inside the export file add this entry: /var/assets 10.0.0.1(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) Let's assume 10.0.0.2 for our CDN server and 10.0.0.1 for our Application server. You can find your machine IP address using the command ifconfig right after inet addr. We can add an entry inside /etc/exports to let the machine know that this folder is to be exported. In my case I didn't have to change the ownership but if it fails to share, do change the owner to nobody and the group to nogroup. Let's say the folder we want to share is called /var/assets. All you have to do now is setup the directories you want to share. Install the nfs server program: sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server portmap The CDN will have the server application and our code server will have the client application. You create a folder on your CDN server, and make it accessible through the application server. This could be problematic for most simple set ups because you have to upload your files into a different server. I use one server to host my code and another to host my image files or assets.

If you read my post about creating your own CDN you must have wondered how to share files across servers.

Ubuntu network file sharing install#

Ubuntu network file sharing how to#