How to check if NFS is set up properly?

[balanga]

How can I tell from a remote machine if I have configured NFS properly?

I want to store Clonezilla images on a FreeNAS NFS share setup specifically for this task, but I haven't managed to set up the share correctly. Any suggestions as to what I need to check?

 

[dlavigne]

What are the settings on the NFS share and what are the errors on the client?

 

[balanga]

What are the settings on the NFS share and what are the errors on the client?

There were a number of errors on my part....First I didn't manage to connect to the share properly... The NFS share was /mnt/nas/images and I tried mounting 192.168.0.2/images as with CIFS. Eventually I mounted 192.168.0.2:/mnt/nas/images. Not sure if I named the share correctly - I'm just learning with all this stuff.

Clonezilla did mount the share but then terminated. Wasn't sure why at first but it became apparent that it was a permissions problem. I had set the owner to 'nobody', so then changed it to 'root' and then Clonezilla worked fine.

So my question is, who should I set as the owner of and NFS share if I want to write to it?

Also I'm confused about what version of NFS to use... v2, v3 or v4?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

My NFS share is set up like this:

In the Dataset Permissions:
Owner: root
Group: wheel

In Sharing:
Mapall User: root
Mapall Group: wheel

I'm sure the owner and group can be whatever you want, as long as you set the Mapall User and Mapall Group to match. This is for a share that gives everyone full access.