Introduction

This tutorial covers How to Set Up NFS on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management.

Step 1 — Install NFS Server

zypper install -y nfs-kernel-server

Step 2 — Configure Exports

echo "/srv/nfs *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)" >> /etc/exports
exportfs -a

Step 3 — Start NFS

systemctl enable --now nfs-server

AppArmor Considerations

Note: SLES 12 uses AppArmor for mandatory access control. Check AppArmor status with aa-status and enforce profiles with aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/<profile>.

Conclusion

You have successfully completed: How to Set Up NFS on SLES 12. For more SLES 12 tutorials, see our full SLES 12 series.