Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:03:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: try adding /directorytobeexported hostname_to_export_to(ro,no_root_squash) This works well, thanks. you could do that, or just setup one user/group and add everyone to it that needs

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Brian May
Alisdair == Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alisdair The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are totally Alisdair different across the two machines: e.g. the UID for Alisdair alisdair on letdown is the UID for knox on skinny. Is Alisdair there a sensible way of fixing

NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm trying to set up an NFS server to share my MP3 directory across the network: both machines are running current potato and 2.2.13, with nfs-common and nfs-server on each. My exports file on letdown (the server) is: /var/local/mp3 skinny(ro) On skinny, doing mount letdown:/var/local/mp3/

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for alisda this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a alisda Debian package for knfsd, and is it easy to install? make sure the user mounting the NFS share

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:47:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for alisda this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a alisda Debian package for knfsd, and is it

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda Ah. I just tried putting it in /etc/fstab, and doing mount as alisda alisdair, and it worked :-) cool.. alisda if its root that is mounting it you may want tot ry the alisda no_root_squash option alisda alisda I get `no such option' if I