NFS not working

methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Hi,
In order to have my boxes talking to each other for NFS i have to put the hostnames in /etc/hosts right?.Forgive me for being a network newbie.Can anyone tell me if i'm correct and show me how to make the entries in /etc/hosts?.Thankx in advance

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:13 am Post subject:

You should be able to access other machines via NFS with dotted quad IP addresses. If you want to use the automounter, then that may require hostnames to be set.

You'll need to run the portmapper, nfsd, mountd, (and potentially, lockd, statd) and you should be able to mount by IP address if your /etc/exports allow it. Portmapper needs to be run on both machines even if it doesn't share nfs directories.
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methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Hi there,
I'm planning on running an nfs server.Is it allright if nfsd is compiled into the kernel, as opposed to being a module that gets loaded at boot time?

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject:

I have the nfs stuff compiled directly into my kernels, and my nfsd works just fine. And, if you plan on moving to samba any time in the future, enable cifs support while you're there.

Blessed be!
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methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Thankx dude....and thankx for your other eloquent replies to my previous post(on nfs i believe)

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

You're welcome.

Blessed be!
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methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

I've just installed nfs-utils on my nfs client machine and on the nfs server machine, compiled i believe the necessary stuff in the ker nel for the server and client machines, but nfs is still not working. i get this error:

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

Try starting portmap on both sides

tgR10 · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:34 am Post subject:

edit your /etc/hosts.allow
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methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Portmap was started on both sides.....trying a re-edit of /etc/hosts.allow as suggested.Thankx for your replies guys.

methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Nope i've tried both your suggestions but have had no luck with either.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5947

merged a bunch of nfs threads by the same user here. what isn't here was moved to duplicate threads.
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methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Hi...I'm using gentoo.Can anyone tell me how to start all the necessary nfs daemons, excluding portmap coz i have that started.I installed the nfs-utils package on the client and the server(which is supposed to have all the nfs daemons included).But when i do(on the server):

questionaire · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 131

methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

sorry for being a n00b dude.I guess it's kinda annoying.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23062

methodtwo:
I have not yet seen any of your posts where you provide the output of emerge --info. This shows us quite a bit about your configuration, at least some of which is often relevant to the problem at hand. You should always include the output of emerge --info in a new thread or link back to a post in which you provided it previously. Similarly, if you report the name of a package that you think is relevant to a problem, please include the output of emerge --pretend --verbose category/package, so that we can see what version you are using and what flags were used to build it.

Please try to use correct spelling and grammar to the extent practical. Allowances are often made for people whose native language is not English, but your style suggests to me that you are a native speaker. Not all readers here are native English speakers, and if your post uses idioms, alternate spellings, or other shortcuts, it may be more difficult for some readers to follow. That reduces the audience of potentially helpful people.

Finally, some directly relevant commentary: I think you have been reading documentation for some other Linux distribution. Some types of documentation apply to all Linux distributions. Other types do not. NFS initialization happens to fall into the latter category. Gentoo does not have /etc/init.d/mountd. Instead, NFS services are managed through /etc/init.d/nfs, as questionaire said.

methodtwo · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 231

Hi there..i don't know if you've read my posts about my NFS problems.Basically it started working when i re-compiled my kernel so that nfsd was a module and not compiled directly into the kernel.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5947

merged in two more threads.
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