I'm trying to get NFS working on a fairly minimal system, Redhat 7.3. On install I chose the server setup, minus xwindows (had trouble with the graphics card, don't need x anyhow) and with no firewall, made sure NFS was installed.
/etc/exports has one entry as follows: /abyss 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0(rw) /abyss is a directory where I mounted the secondary hard drive. I want to share it, obviously. Anyone see anything wrong with this? I had some trouble starting the nfs daemons, then I found a good page at redhat <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-export.html> that got me going. But I still cannot share the directory, when I try I get a message about "the remote directory is invalid". I am trying to mount from an SGI station (running IRIX 6.5.15, should be okay), there are no other linux boxes in the lab. To troubleshoot I tried changing /etc/exports to: /abyss 192.168.1.55 thats the ip# of the machine I'm using to test. I restarted nfs daemons, but still no go. I'm using ip#s because the linux box seems to have some trouble with dns, but pings okay with ips. Maybe I should try to fix that first. Could it be the filesystem format (ext3) causing a problem? ??? Also, I want to use this setup with some SGI/IRIX clients running 6.5.10, which has an NFS bug. Upgrading IRIX on the other SGs would fix it, but that is not really an option right now. There is a linux patch at <ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/private/james/> (it forces linux to use 32bit file handles to make the SGs happy) but I am too much of a newbie to have a clue how to install the patch. Any suggestions where I can do my homework/manufacture a clue? Dazzled Dave
