Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020307 3:18 > > 1. The nfs-utils rpm is still not being installed, even though > nfs-utils-clients is.
Sounds normal since one is for server us, the other for client use. > 2. Even though the exportfs is set up correctly, another machine on the > network which is running Mandrake 8.0 will NOT connect across different > kernel versions (Permission refused). It is impractical to require > all the machines on a Linux network to be using exactly the same kernel > version and release of Linux. By virtue of the release numbering > convention 8.0 must be compatible with all later 8.n releases. This > includes networking. Any idea on the origin of this problem? > 3. /etc/resolv and /etc/hosts and /etc/exports are still not being set > up and exportfs -r is not being run (it is not even installed! See 1. > above. > It is in the nfs-utils RPM). Without these, networking is > impossible. exportfs -r is run automatically by the "nfs" initscript. > 4. Something is continuing to alter or rebuild, usually incorrectly, > /etc/fstab. NOTHING should ever interfere with this file. diskdrake is interfering with it and probably a few other config programs such as linuxconf/webmin; also, supermount script does. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
