* Login to the HOST as a regular user (joker if you are working in lab T2107).

* Open a terminal window and swith to super user with the command "su -"

* If the portmapper is running, you can turn off with the command "service portmap stop".

* On the NFS client machine, you need the NFS virtual file system driver in order to be able to access exported directory on the NFS server. Most Linux system compiled the NFS file system driver as a Loadable Kernel module. Try the following command to check whether the NFS file system module has been installed:

[root@localhost root]# mount -t nfs ip-of-SERVER:/nfs-pub /nfs-mnt

* Use the command "df" and "mount" to check the NFS mounted directory. Record and compare the output of the "df" and "mount" commands.

== The ownership of new files created on NFS share==

* While you are still running the root shell on the NFS client machine (HOST), execute the following file copy command: