Op di 21-01-2003, om 01:08 schreef George Bingham: > > > Hello, > > I just got my Debian installation finished on my Mac Quadra 660 AV, > thanks to much networking help from this list. > > Now I am trying to use the CD-ROM from my Mac with another machine on > the network. I.e. I'd like to export the directory on my Mac that I have my > CD-ROM mounted to so that the other machine - it's running Mach 2.1 - can > mount it. I believe that the mounting procedure on the Next box is the same > as for any Unix NFS client, but I don't think I've got my Mac setup yet to > do NFS, at least I cannot see any NFS daemon running. > > Anyway, I use exportfs to export the /cdrom directory (where I have > /dev/sr0 mounted to) and it'll show up in the /var/<whatever> subdirectory > that shows > the kernel what's currently exportable, but it never updates /etc/exports.
Obviously not. *You* are supposed to update that file; it should contain the exported filesystems -- whatever you feed to exportfs. Just running '/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start' should do the exportfs stuff for you. > I cannot get the mount command on the Next box to work, but I'm fairly > certain that it's because the Mac is not really exporting it. Well, if you've used exportfs, it sure as hell is exporting it. > Both machines know about each other and can ping each other by hostname. > And I am naming the host to export to in the exportfs command on the Mac. > > Shouldn't there be an NFS daemon running? If so where from / when does > it get launched? It's not in inet.conf, should it be? No, N/A, and no. The NFS exports are done by the kernel, provided you're using nfs-kernel-server. If you're using nfs-user-server (which I highly discourage you to do, but it's up to you), _then_ you'd need some daemons. However, with the kernel approach, you'll still need a portmapper in user-space. Installing nfs-kernel-server and its dependencies should take care of that for you. -- wouter at grep dot be "An expert can usually spot the difference between a fake charge and a full one, but there are plenty of dead experts." -- National Geographic Channel, in a documentary about large African beasts.
