One time on Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:41:36PM -0500 this person named Jesse McDonnell wrote: > > Trying to make sense of the short excerpt you've given (I know, I did ask for > an edited excerpt ;) ), it looks like your client is hanging at the point > where it is getting the attributes of the files on the root file system. > Since clients are read-only mounting /opt/ltsp/i386 it *shouldn't* be a > problem to disable the retrival of file attributes. You can do this by adding > "noacto" (man nfs for an explanation) to the options for the nfs-mounted root > directory in /etc/exports. > > /opt/ltsp/i386 > 172.16.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,noacto,sync) ####( assuming eth0 > on your ltsp server is 172.16.1.1) > > As root, re-read /etc/exports after you make the change #/sbin/exportfs -rav > > Let me know what happens. >
exportfs: /etc/exports:9: unknown keyword "noacto" I tried to google for this option, but there were no hits. > Jesse > > PS: What type of a network card is in the "problem" machine, and what nics > are working okay? If the problem is basically due to lousy network > performance, then a better nic or using nfs over tcp/ip would deal with the > problem at a more fundamental level. > > > The card on the server is a 3Com 3c905b and the clients are all Dell Optiplex GX1s with onboard 3c905bs. -- Jim Wharton The Trashheap has spoken. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
