Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted homedirectory)

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On 23 Aug 2001 12:47:25 -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> I have the kernel server up, but now it won't export my directories. I have
> lines like:
> /usr/local/oggs   192.168.1.2(ro) 192.168.1.4(ro) 192.168.1.1(ro)
> /home             192.168.1.2(rw, no_root_squash) 192.168.1.4(rw)
> in my /etc/exports file.
> When I (re)start nfs-kernel-server I get:
> Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...exportfs: syntax error in
> exports file (line 7): bad option list
> But /etc/exports is only five lines, including all comments.
> When I remove the no_root_squash option, it says it starts, but I get
> mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
> on the client and /var/lib/nfs/xtab is empty.
> What do I have to do to get the kernel server to run?

Is the portmapper running?  /etc/init.d/nfs-common start as root should
set up the other requirements for the kernel-server.

--mike