Yes this sounds like good progress. Does it work if you simply export and mount /Media?
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:24:50 -0800 > Chris Schafer <[email protected]> dijo: > > >What does exportfs -a say? > > > >Have you tried a different mount point and export point? > > > >Is there any other nfs in use on the box? > > > >Have you mounted anything on the laptop anywhere else before? Have you > >mounted anything to the desktop before? > > > >I might explicitly add the desktop to the export configuration. > > > >But I would work through to make sure each side is working rather then > >wondering why the two together aren't working in combination. > > Progress! > > I wanted to be sure that running showmount -e on the desktop was > actually reading the exports file on the laptop. So I edited the > exports file on the laptop and added my home folder, then did exportfs > -a. Turning to the desktop I ran showmount -e again, and this time it > displayed two folders, the second one being the just-added home folder. > > Elated with this small step forward I tried mounting my home folder on > the laptop in /media on the desktop. It worked! > > Flushed with success I tried mounting /media/jjj/Movies again, but I > still got the same error message as before. :( > > Conclusion: > > Either there is something wrong with the syntax of my mount command, or > the syntax of the share in /etc/exports is wrong, or there is something > funny happening because /media/jjj/Movies is an external USB drive. > Note, however, that previously I did chmod 777 on the whole /media > folder, and I know for a fact that the drive is mounted on the laptop. > > At least now I can eliminate a lot of wondering about whether the > network is functioning properly with all the proper libraries and > utilities. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
