How to mount AWS EFS to Macbook or local computers

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anniepark90 picture anniepark90 · Dec 7, 2016 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

I am trying to mount AWS EFS to my local macbook (Also other local computers) However, after trying so many things, it is not working.

My port 22 and 2049 is wide open as a testing.

I tried few command like mount -t nfs4 -o nfservers=4.1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/ efs/

But I am keep getting connection timed out error.

Also I tried mounting this EFS to another AWS account EC2 instances. But keep getting same error.

For example. I have EFS in Account1 and EC2 in Account2 (Different VPC) and trying

sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/ /efs/

It is not working.

It ONLY works if I have my EC2 in same Account (which is account1).

Is there a way I can mount this EFS in different account or local computers?

Did many google search and AWS forum search.. but no luck.

Answer

capitalg picture capitalg · Jun 13, 2018

For those who are curious, try

sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=4,tcp,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 -w host_ip:/ efs

worked for me via direct connect.

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