NFS problem

Vesqs · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

I have a problem with NFS.
I have a small desktop computer working as a server in my homenetwork and it's been working fine (with Gentoo) until now.
When I boot the machine it cannot start NFS services. When I start nfs with /etc/init.d/nfs start or restart I get the following output:

* Stopping NFS mountd... [ ok ]
* Stopping NFS daemon... [ ok ]
* Stopping NFS statd... [ ok ]
* Starting NFS statd... [ ok ]
* Exporting NFS directories...
/sbin/runscript.sh: line 534: 7568 Killed $exportfs -r 1>&2
* Error exporting NFS directories [ !! ]
* Starting NFS daemon... [ ok ]
* Starting NFS mountd... [ ok ]

my exports file looks like this:

# /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5).
/mnt/storage/public 192.168.1.2(rw,sync)

Could somebody please help me?
I'm using 2.6.7-r11 gentoo dev kernel. Could this be a kernel issue?

barran · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:53 am Post subject:

Could you perhaps give some more information?
Try to read the /etc/init.d/nfs script and start the daemons manually in the frontground and check your logfiles in /var/log
Then try to run exportfs -vf

Are you sure /usr/sbin/exportfs exists on your system and has the right permissions?

Vesqs · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

I tried running the daemons manually they took their time, and didn't show any error messages.
Server still not functioning.
logs show that exporting NFS directories fails, and I think this is the source of my problem.
exportfs -vf doesn't print anything (seems to run ok)

exportfs is owned by root, and others have a read and execute permissions.

However there seemes to be file missinig. /etc/init.d/nfs tries to run /usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad that is missing. is this what I need? and if so where can I get it?

barran · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

Maybe you should try and reemerge nfs-utils. Perhaps another version?

Vesqs · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

I'll give it a try. In any case I still have the option on re-installing Gentoo. With stage-3 it wont even take too long :roll:

richardash1981 · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject:

You need to sort out name resolution (and reverse lookup) on your network.
The nfs server needs to be able to do a reverse DNS lookup on each client IP that tries to connect to it,(even with IP addresses or masks in /etc/exports). If it can't, mount will often time out on the clients, and exportfs will take much longer.
Either add the nfs clients to the DNS or the server's hosts file.