On 08/28/2010 12:31 PM, Kirk Goins wrote: > I have a lightly used Mandrake 8.2 server that I need to configure a > NFS connection to. I putz occasionally with Linux, so my skills are > limited. I have Webmin 1.380 installed and have used it in the past to > get things like Samba configured. > > I'm trying to get an IBM Power System running IBM i ( OS/400 - i5/OS ) > configured. I can get get the mount cmd to mount the connection but > then I don't have authority to the even view the contents. > > Anyone out there willing to a take guess as to the problem? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Sounds like you need to adjust the mount options, umasks of the source folders/files, and starting of NFS services. Here's a sample line from /etc/exports on the NFS server: /var/public 192.168.1.0/24(no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash) Then on the client machine I add a line like the following to /etc/fstab: ns.pippiandcarlos.com:/var/public /home/ckonstanski/public nfs defaults,user,noauto 0 0 Make sure that the shared files and folders on the NFS server have at minimum these "ordinary" permissions: 755 on folders and 644 on files. Whether it is strictly necessary is something I have not tested personally; but it's a good starting point for your own investigations. Setting permissions "looser", i.e. 777 on folders and 666 on files, is not necessary. Services: On the server I run nfs and portmap. On the client I run portmap, rpc.idmapd, rpc.pipefs and rpc.statd. Type "mount /home/ckonstanski/public" (substitute your own path) to mount the NFS share according to the rules in /etc/fstab. Don't type something like "mount -t nfs ns:/var/public /home/ckonstanski/public" because you'll bypass fstab if you tell mount everything it needs to know on the command line. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
