Accessing NFS Shares

[TechBoyJK]

Is there a way to access NFS shares directly so that you don't have to mount them first?

For instance, say I have an NFS share setup on server 'files01' and I'm sharing a folder called /files

Can I reference the file directly on the nfs server from a remote server? Goal here would be to move the local file 'image.jpg' to the NFS share on another server.

Example

#mv /somefiles/image.jpg //files01/files/image.jpg

 

[mv2devnull]

No. You either have a filesystem mounted, or you don't.

You could configure the automounter to automagically mount the files:/files to some local mount-point, whenever you try to access that local mount-point.

Alternatively, forget the NFS and copy files with some other protocol, for example 'rsync'.

 

[Scarpozzi]

If you already have 1 server configured with an NFS share and all you want to do is copy files TO the NFS server, make it RW in /etc/export to the server you're copying from.

That will allow you to use the server with /somefiles/image.jpg as an NFS client.

You'll just need to create a mount for the remote server
#mkdir /files01share
#mount -t nfs files01:/files
then you can
#mv /somefiles/image.jpg /files01share

 

[Red Squirrel]

Since it's strictly for moving files, I would just use rsync or scp and then you can do it directly.

Something like:

rsync file.jpg user@server.loc:/path/to/remote/location/

Of course the permissions for user need to match correctly, but same would go for NFS.