Re: NFS woes.

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

AFAIK you should also include the hostname/address in the exports line,

eg /mnt/cdrom 192.168.*.*/24(ro)

----- Original Message -----
From: Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net>
To: <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: NFS woes.

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
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> OK, folks, this is a biggie...
>
> I`ve recently setup a peer-to-peer ethernet network with my flatmates
> linux box (both boxes are running Redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.14).
> IP Masquerading (for all the usual things - irc, www and icq), telnet,
> and ftp work fine.
>
> However, for something to do, I`m trying to config NFS between the two
> machines.
>
> I`ve read the NFS-How-to, and followed the steps to setting my box up
> as an NFS server, and my flatmates box as a client.
>
> arrakis (192.168.0.1) is my machine, marlboro (192.168.0.2) is my
> flatmates box.
>
> Here`s my /etc/exports file:
>
> /mnt/win/ marlboro(rw) # give access to my Winblows drive files.
> /home/ marlboro(rw)
>
> /etc/hosts.allow file:
>
> portmap: 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0
>
> /etc/hosts.deny file:
>
> portmap: ALL
>
> And on my flatmates machine (marlboro) the following lines have been
> added to /etc/fstab
>
> arrakis:/mnt/win /mnt/win nfs
> rsize=1024,wsize=1024,rw,nosuid 1 1
> arrakis:/home /mnt/ahome nfs
> rsize=1024,wsize=1024,rw,nosuid 1 1
>
> When I issue the mount command as any user and as root on marlboro, I`m
> told:
>
> mount: RPC: Program not registered
>
> However, rpcinfo -p on my machine gives:
>
> 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
> 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
> 100021 1 udp 1024 nlockmgr
> 100021 3 udp 1024 nlockmgr
> 100021 1 tcp 1024 nlockmgr
> 100021 3 tcp 1024 nlockmgr
> 100024 1 udp 952 status
> 100024 1 tcp 954 status
> 100011 1 udp 684 rquotad
> 100011 2 udp 684 rquotad
> 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
> 100005 1 udp 806 mountd
> 100005 1 tcp 808 mountd
> 100005 2 udp 811 mountd
> 100005 2 tcp 813 mountd
> 100005 3 udp 816 mountd
> 100005 3 tcp 818 mountd
>
> So, obviously mountd (quite a few of them, in fact) is running on the
> server (my box) - in fact I start it (should I?) and exportfs in my
> etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
>
> After reading all that, does anyone have any idea what I`ve done wrong?
>
> That`s all the files I`ve changed, as far as I can figure.
>
> HELP!!!
>
> ----------
> Barrie J. Bremner
>
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