[SOLVED] NFS Server on Proxmox Host

nhasian

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I'm trying to share a directory on the proxmox server via NFS to other clients on the network and to virtual machine clients on Proxmox.

drive to be shared /dev/sdb1 mounted on /data

in /etc/fstab:
/data /srv/nfs4/data none bind 0 0

in /etc/exports:
/srv/nfs4 192.168.1.0/24(rw,fsid=0,no_subtree_check,sync)
/srv/nfs4/data 192.168.1.0/24(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)



#systemctl start nfs-server.service
Failed to start nfs-server.service: Unit nfs-server.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Client does not show nfs listed as services running on server:

$rpcinfo -p 192.168.1.254 | cut -c30- | sort -u
portmapper
service
status


When attempting to mount from client:

mount -v -t nfs4 192.168.1.254:/ /mnt/data
mount.nfs4: timeout set for Fri Aug 26 14:02:13 2016
mount.nfs4: trying text-based options 'vers=4.2,addr=192.168.1.254,clientaddr=192.168.1.4'
mount.nfs4: mount(2): Connection refused
Job for rpc-statd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status rpc-statd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

so long story short, I don't know why the nfs-server.service is failing to load. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: RESOLVED

I had to install the package nfs-kernel-server. Also the correct service to start was not nfs-server.service, it was actually nfs-kernel-server.service
 
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