Re: NFS

["Roderick Cummings" <debian_user@hotmail.com>]

> From: Jerry Sternesky <jster@home.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: NFS
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:58:58 -0400
>
> Where can I get information on setting up an NFS share for Potato?  The nfs
> how-to isn't helping me and in The Debian GNU/Linux Network adminstrator's
> manual, the nfs section is blank.  I installed nfs-common and
> nfs-kernel-server.
>
> rpcinfo -p only showed portmapper running so I executed rpc.mountd and that
> seemed ok, but when I run rpc.nfsd I get nfssvc: Function not implemented.
> So I need to be able to figure out what is happening here.  I never had a
> problem with nfs before, but this is my first install of debain and things
> are a little different then I am accustomed to.  So a point in the right
> direction would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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It's pretty easy after you do it once, like most things. You need to specify 
what directories to share in /etc/exports. Otherwise, on boot or init 
change, nfsd checks to see if there are any directories to "export" and if 
there are none it exits. So that's why you're not seeing it.

Here is one of my export files. It's sharing a cd to the system named howard 
and pointlessly is offering rw to it, not that I look at it. duh!

roder@sparky$ cat /etc/exports
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be 
exported
#               to NFS clients.  See exports(5).
/cdrom  howard.x.lan(rw)



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