Re: Question on setting up NFS

["Pete Kay" <petedao@gmail.com>]

Hi Owen,

Thank you so much for your guidance.  Based on your instruction, I found out the following:

1. /sbin/mount.nfs does not exist in the client machine and server machine
2. I can mount locally on the server machine with no problem.

What could have gone wrong?

Thanks,
Pete

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Owen Townend <owen.townend@gmail.com> wrote:

On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <petedao@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Here is the result for the two commands:

ser:# dmesg |tail
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

ser:# apt-get install nfs-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
nfs-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

I think the nfs-common is already installed...



Pete

Hey,
  Looks ok so far, more things to check:
  Does /sbin/mount.nfs exist?
  if you add/change the server line to
/var/fs 127.0.0.1(rw,sync)
  and re-export can you mount this locally on the server?
debian:# mount localhost:/var/fs /mnt

  Also, in your initial email, either the output of `exportfs`
was truncated or the export isn't working as it should be
listed in the output. Try reloading and/or restarting the
nfs-server:
debian:# invoke-rc.d nfs-kernel-server reload
(or nfs-user-server)

cheers,
Owen.