Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if neccessary: File systems: Network File Systems: NFS File System Support: M or Y NFS Server Support: M or Y Select the appropriate sub-options that appear when the above options are selected. Before you compile the program, you need to be sure the "nobody" user and "nogroup" group are available. You can add these with the following commands: groupadd -g 65534 nogroup && useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 65534 nobody Install nfs-utils by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make && make install If your /usr directory is NFS mounted, you should install the executables in /sbin by passing an additional parameter --sbindir=/sbin to the above ./configure command.