On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:00, you wrote: > Hi, > My woes with nfs continue .... > > I now have two machines running linux one running RH7.3 the other > running RH8.0 (whoo network install), I now want to have a single home > directory on both, easy right .... no > > I have shared /home on machine 1, and I can mount it on machine 2, but > not during the boot sequence. When I mount it to somewhere other than > /home on machine 2 I can look through my files on the other machine but > I really want it mounted on /home at boot .... > > /var/log/messages on machine 1 tells me that rpc.mountd authenticates > the mount request from machine 2 and it appears to do it a few times (9 > in total). > > /var/log/messages on machine 2 just tells me that mount: RPC Timed out > and Mounting of NFS file systems subsequently fails. > > The line I am trying to use in /etc/fstab is > > <snip> > IP_MACHINE_1:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 > </snip> > > Which in theory should work. Yes, but there are other things to attend to as well.
> Any pearls of wisdom? /etc/exports /etc/hosts.allow man 5 exports man 5 hosts.allow Will explain with eloquence -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
