>Check this URL, too: > >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/troubleshooting.html#SYMPTOM3 > >actually you might want to read the whole howto: > >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/
Actually, I'd been there already, but as I am learning is often the case with linux how-to's, it addresses a level of abstraction that is not really useful to a newbie redhat user like me. In the section about setting up the nfs daemons it talks quite vaguely about putting stuff in the init scripts. Redhat already has the init scripts written, I just needed to know the command to make them active. Following that how-to would have just got me in trouble, though it may have made me more well-informed. (Of course, if I was *smart* I'd have known I needed to go to redhat's site as soon as I saw those start-up scripts on my disk, but my brain had to curdle for a while.) And as long as I am ranting, I might as well complain about redhat's site - I found the stuff I needed rather by accident when I wasn't in the lab, then I couldn't find it for a while when I went back to the lab. This is because the section on "configuring NFS daemons" (easy to find by searching for "nfs daemons") has no link or reference to the section on "exporting an nfs filesystem" (hard to find except by luck) which had what I really wanted in it. You'd think they were sort of related, why not link? Am I going to configure and then not export? Anyhow, thanks for the suggestion, I certainly don't mean to take all this out on you. I appreciate your help. Daffy Dave
