On 12/28/2009 11:51 AM, James Babiak wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I'm new to the mailing list, and had a question that hopefully someone > can help me with. I'm using the beta version of Astlinux 0.7, and am > trying to setup nfsd to export a share. Basically, I want to try to get > the box to be a NAS server of sorts. I have a USB drive attached and > it's mounted on /mnt/usb. I actually ran into issues getting it to > automount on reboots. Reading other messages on this list I found the > only successful way to get this to work was by appending a mount command > to the end of /etc/rc. Any other method, via fstab or mouting it in > /etc/rc with the rest of the filesystem, failed. But that problem has > been solved. My only remaing issue is getting nfsd working properly. > I ran into a few problems even figuring out how to get nfsd started. I > found that I had to load it as a kernel module, as there was no > userspace nfsd. In fact, I don't see anything in the filesystem for nfs > outside of a kernel module, and an invalid init.d script. I say invalid > because /etc/init.d/nfsd uses nfsd,mountd,lockd and portmap to start, > but those are not present in the filesystem. I didn't see any > nfs-kernel-server start-up script. I setup the variables for rc.conf in > /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/nfs.conf for: > > NFS_EXPORTS_RW="/mnt/usb" > NFS_EXPORTS_RO="/mnt/kd" > > (the usb one being the one I care about, and adding the kd one since it > wasn't working without a RO line and I thought maybe it needed one too?) > and this appends to /etc/rc.conf as well as creating the /etc/exports > file with: > > /mnt/kd 172.20.0.0/24(ro,no_root_squash,sync) > <http://172.20.0.0/24(ro,no_root_squash,sync)> > /mnt/usb 172.20.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync) > <http://172.20.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)> > > in it. So far so good. However, nothing I do manually will get it > working. When I load (manually or automatically) the nfsd kernel module, > I get: > > nfs 216360 0 > nfs_acl 2624 1 nfs > lockd 53832 1 nfs > sunrpc 162876 5 nfs,nfs_acl,lockd > > all loaded. I've never really messed with nfs-kernel-server, so I read > up on it. I see there are commands to push export changes out, but don't > see anything installed that will do it. > > Reading up on other people's nfs work with Astlinux on the mailing list > in the past, it seems like others have gotten it working. I thought > maybe the beta, or current, release was lacking something, so I svn'd > the entire trunk and all branches out of the repository to see if I am > missing something, or can enable something in a custom image. But as far > as I can tell, there was never any apps available for nfsd, at least > since 0.4. So I'm not sure how /etc/init.d/nfsd ever worked. > > Am I missing something, or has anyone else had any success doing what I > am trying to do? I've gotten everything else working except for the nfs > stuff, and would really like to get that up and running too. Worst case > scenario, I see there seems to be a samba server available in the trunk, > so I might have to play with that. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > > -James
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