Dru Devore wrote: > I am not an administrator but I will try and explain my situation. > > I am running a home network with a router that does not resolve names. I > have foundation in my hosts in my client machine, foundation is the only > computer on the network that has a static ip and this is because my > router does not allow me to assign an ip to the a name. When I was > running Ubuntu on the server, before I decided to change to zfs and > OpenSolaris, I didn't could mount my nfs without the client in the hosts > file. The thing that really confuses me why would the server need to > resolve the name of the client? > >
Dru, Some servers want to make sure that the name maps to an address and the address maps back to that same name. If that doesn't happen, the mount request can be denied. I'm not saying that the OpenSolaris server works that way. The following is a very basic set of commands which zpool create pool zfs create pool/thud zfs set sharenfs=on pool/thud will create a share that any client can access. This will depend on your router for denying any inbound NFS traffic. At least one other responder has offered this up. > Presently I can mount the nfs iff I have the client name in the hosts > file but as soon as I remove the client from the hosts file I cannot > mount the client any more. > Is this on your OpenSolaris server or the Ubuntu one you mention? What are the shares you have on the server? Could you provide the output of the share command on your server? server> share > So the question is can I get it to accept a mount without it resolving > the client name? > > > Yes. If you do not provide host names and/or dns subdomains to the share, it will not attempt to resolve the client name. If you do: zfs set sharenfs=on pool/thud or zfs set sharenfs=...@192.168.4.12:@192.168.4.13 pool/thud then you do not need to do a name lookup. If you however do: zfs set sharenfs=rw=alpha:beta:gamma pool/thud or zfs set sharenfs=rw=.foo.sun.com pool/thud then a name lookup will need to occur. If you provide the output of the share command on your server, we can help you figure out what is going on here. > --- > Dru Devore > > >
