Use the mount command to mount a NFS filesystem from another machine:

mount porky:/mnt/export /mnt/local

In this command, porky is the hostname of the NFS fileserver, /mnt/export is the filesystem that porky is exporting, and /mnt/local is a directory on my local machine where we want to mount the filesystem. After the mount command runs (and if we have the proper permissions from porky) we can enter ls /mnt/local and get a listing of the files in /mnt/export on porky.

The file that controls what filesystems you wish to export is /etc/exports. Its format is:

directory       hostname(options)

the (options) are optional. For example:

/mnt/export     speedy.redhat.com

would allow speedy.redhat.com to mount /mnt/export, but:

/mnt/export     speedy.redhat.com(ro)

would just allow speedy to mount /mnt/export read-only.

Each time you change /etc/exports, you need to tell the NFS daemons to examine it for new information. One simple way to accomplish this is to just stop and start the daemons:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start

The following will also work:

killall -HUP rpc.nfsd rpc.mountd