On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:18:56AM +0000, randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > I am having problems configuring nfs on my small home network of two > computers. [...] > - both computers have (X)LFS-6.2. > - config files have been setup as given in the book. > - using kernel-2.6.20 on server and 2.6.20.7 on client. > - nfs has been enabled in the kernel as required. > - portmap has been installed and is running > - nfs-server and nfs-client have been activated on server and client > respectively and are > running > - telnet and ftp though installed, are NOT working between server and > client. (I'll ignore this separate problem) > > The problem is that i cannot mount the server volumes on to the client > either manually or through fstab. Error messages might be useful, but you could start on the server: check that what you wish to export is in /etc/exports, and then look at /var/log/daemon.log to see what it shows for attempts by the client to mount (search for 'mountd').
> > Do i need to install BIND9 or something else? > No, definitely not. You might also try reading the nfs HOWTO which seems to now live at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ - particularly, section 7.3. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
