After some initial poking and prodding and smacking things about, I've gotten windows (using the Windows Services for Unix package from microsoft) to see and navigate NFS mounted shares, but It seems that I had to more that I feel was necessary in order to make it work.
Initially, linux complained when my windows PC tried to get the share: Apr 26 12:26:43 rockhopper rpc.mountd: can't get hostname of 137.70.103.112 That turned out to be the DHCP assigned IP address for my windows machine. As soon as I got a static IP with a DNS entry assigned, all was well. I altered the /etc/exports to recognize the DNS entry assigned to this and I could make it navigate the tree. I have yet to be able to make the mount command, which is replaced with something new when you install Windows Services for Unix, to actually mount the NFS share, but I have been able to use 'my network places' to see the share on the target machine. I think however it is using UDP. When I started doing this, these messages started appearing in my log about every 10 minutes. Apr 27 08:30:46 rockhopper inetd[83]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminate Anyway, is there something I need to do differently in my exports file to not require DNS reverse lookup of an inbound host? My exports file looks like this. For this test (after I got the static IP) I added gsopdwdf911 (my DNS name. Strange name I know) to one single share, and I can get there no problem usning 'my network places' I'm just wondering about the wisdom of including IP address ranges, or if that is even going to work # See exports(5) for a description. # This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers. # It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. /images itasca(ro) calhoun(ro) pepin(ro) phalen(ro) nokomis(ro) pequot(ro) /images/ibm/Msg_broker/db2 itasca(ro) calhoun(ro) pepin(ro) phalen(ro) nokomis(ro) pequot(ro) gsopdwdf911(ro) /images/ibm/Msg_broker/was_MQ itasca(ro) calhoun(ro) pepin(ro) phalen(ro) nokomis(ro) pequot(ro) /images/ibm/Msg_broker/was_MB itasca(ro) calhoun(ro) pepin(ro) phalen(ro) nokomis(ro) pequot(ro) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
