On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 May 2015 08:47:37 Mark Wendt wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > which looks good, but /net/shop/home is still empty!
> > >
> > > Then I noticed a flashing icon on the bottom taskbar (running not
> > > KDE here, but TDE R14) which opened a mount configure thingy, I told
> > > it to mount automatically, and at least till I reboot, its all
> > > working! root@coyote:/# ls -l /net/shop/home/gene
> > > total 44
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Desktop
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Documents
> > > drwxr-xr-x  3 gene gene 4096 May 19 16:58 Downloads
> > > drwxr-xr-x 14 gene gene 4096 Apr 29 05:21 linuxcnc
> > > -rw-------  1 gene gene   91 May 18 22:45 linuxcnc_debug.txt
> > > -rw-------  1 gene gene  777 May 18 22:45 linuxcnc_print.txt
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Music
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Pictures
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Public
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Templates
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 gene gene 4096 May 18 13:10 Videos
> > >
> > > Those popups seem to correspond to my re-adding the mount lines in
> > > my fstab here, and on reading the exports manpage, finding that I
> > > apparently needed to set the second exports fsid=(blkid output for
> > > that labeled partition on shop)
> > >
> > > So now I ought to be able to copy the amanda-client-3.3.7p1.deb from
> > > lathe/home/gene/Downloads to shop/home/gene/Downloads, and dpkg
> > > install the thing.  After I remove the wheezy version which I have
> > > been unable to make work, too damned many config diffs to
> > > comprehend.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the hand holding Mark, and I did it all before going
> > > after a cup of the coffee I started before coming in here.
> > >
> > > > Mark
> >
> > Okay, I missed this the first go-around.  Is there some reason you are
> > exporting the root directory?  That's usually a very big no-no, since
> > you are opening up the entire machine.  Usually you just want to
> > export the individual directories you want remote access to.
>
> I only did this because both boxes are new installs, and I'd need access
> to the whole box.
>
> > Taking a SWAG, there's no separate partition for the /home dir,
>
> shops /home is a separate partition, lathes is not, and it Just Works as
> long as I have the fstab entries on this machine.
>
> > and
> > you've got everything on one big partition?  Exporting the / dir, then
> > trying to export the /home dir which lives under the / dir can and
> > will cause problems just like you have been having.
>
> Yup, because I wasn't using the "nohide" option in both lines of the
> exports file on shop, and was using fsid=0 in the /home line too,
> changing the fsid to the blkid of that partition in the second line for
> the /home export and it all Just Worked(TM). This was after TDE's
> discovery tool popped up and I told it to automount what it found.  So
> now I've used a gene session of mc to move the zmanda version of the
> amanda-client.deb from lathe to shop, then ran into another problem,
> sudo synaptic from the ssh -Y session refuses to run, wrong display.
> xhost says its all allowed, but I can't find a manpage that describes how
> I can allow a 10.0 display request to open on this machine, wrong auth
> is the message from shop.
> gene@shop:~$ sudo synaptic
> [sudo] password for gene:
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>
> (synaptic:7247): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0
>
> So I'll need to go out there and find all the wheezy amanda crap and nuke
> it before I install the zmanda version.  Grrrr.  Need more coffee.
>
> > Get rid of the / export.  export only the directories you need access
> > to. Or, if you really need access to the entire machine, just export
> > the / dir, and once that's mounted on the remote machine, navigate
> > your way to the directories you want.
>
> Because /home was on a separate partition, it has to be a separate
> export.
>
> > Mark
>
> Thanks Mark.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>


Okay, I was going on the presumption that /home wasn't on it's own
partition, and that it lived under the / directory.  So.  Never mind.  ;-)
Still, not a good idea to export the / directory, unless you need that for
the backups.

Mark
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