A nice sanity check you can preform from you're existing image is run a #showmount -e laptop(ip or name) showmount is in /sbin or /usr/sbin. This queries an existing nfs server about the exact directories served and the permissions (ro/rw, which machines are allowed to use it) they're serving.
regards - lior On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:57:20 -0500, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'll need to see the contents of /etc/exports, the actual commands used to > try to mount the exports, and any error messages from the mounts and > /var/log/whatever that NFS puts out. > > Also, make sure portmap is running on both the system serving the exports > and attempting to mount the exports. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom > Duerbusch > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Linux install via NFS > > Slowly I'm moving to the modern world, that is one without Windows. > > Historically, I've installed Suse (7.3 and 8.0) using SMB from > Windows/2000. That still works. But there seems to be a problem with > the current Suse 9.0. I've opened a support issue, but it seems to be > paced at one email exchange a day. Kind of slow process. > > So, it is time to use a different install process. Like NFS. > > Initially, I was trying to setup an install where I used the CD drive on > my Suse 9.0 laptop as the installation source. When I was at work, and > on the local network, the installation would accept the node (PC) as the > source, but I couldn't figure out what "directory" it was looking for. > > On the laptop, the CD drive is /media/cdrecorder and I think the install > directory on the CD is /suse/s390. But the install process kept saying > that it didn't have permissions. I had read and write specified for the > CD for all three types of users (I believe that is called 666...right?) > > But now, I'm working from home over the holidays. I have a static IP > address that I can ping to from the mainframe. > > I seem to have the PC setup as a valid NFS server. I have a desktop > (Suse 8.0) that can mount the share on the laptop without any problem > (but all from within my firewall). > > So I tried, from a Suse 8.0 image that I have running under VM to get my > NFS share. I couldn't. I can ping, but couldn't get the share (no > permissions). I disabled everything on my firewall (a 2Wire firewall) > and get the same problem. > > Friday, I'll try to install vial NFS, but I expect the same problem. (I > punch the install files to the rdr and the files currently exist up in CMS.) > > I think everything should be straight forward, but since I'm facing the > holidays and some of the knowledge base may not be online, I thought I > better check to see if there are any "tricks" that are not intuitive to > me at this point. > > Merry Christmas (or comparable greeting for your belief) > Tom Duerbusch > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
