This is what I'm getting on a freshly installed SLES-12: ~> systemctl is-enabled nfsserver disabled ~> sudo /etc/init.d/nfsserver status Checking for kernel based NFS server: idmapd unused mountd unused statd unused nfsd unused nfsserver.service - LSB: Start the kernel based NFS daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nfsserver) Active: inactive (dead) ~> sudo /etc/init.d/nfsserver start redirecting to systemctl start nfsserver.service Job for nfsserver.service failed. See "systemctl status nfsserver.service" and "journalctl -xn" for details. ~> rpm -q systemd systemd-210-55.2.x86_64