NFS

[Leonard Thomas]

Hi
I have had some of the same problems and did end up going back to
the nfs-server that I was running on RH5.2.  I would be interested is
getting working a little better if possible.

On a related note.  I can easily access a a number of nfs mounted disks from
my linux box, but if I try to access my linux disk  from another machine I have
no luck.  The other machines can not access the disk or lack permissions.  The
error message states both as possibilites.  The other machines are running Irix
6.2 or
Irix 5.3.

Len

Sam Clippinger wrote:

> When last we left our heroes, phase at booyaka.com had just said:
> > i thought this might have something to do with my recent
> > kernel configuration experiments, but i checked the
> > configuration for my running kernel and it appears that
> > NFS support is in there.  i even tried booting the stock
> > redhat 6.1 kernel to no avail.  neither the NFS-HOWTO
> > nor the knfsd documentaion were very helpful, so i guess
> > i'm hoping someone understands the error and is willing
> > to help me fix it.  thanks in advance.
>
> Good luck -- if you get this working, please post a message explaining how.
> I've tried to get knfsd to work several times since it was first introduced,
> with no success.  If you haven't already, make sure that portmapper is running,
> make sure that the locking service is running (rpc.lockd?) and make sure you've
> applied all of the latest knfsd patches to your kernel before you compiled.  I
> have it on good authority that the knfsd stuff can be _made_ to work, but
> apparently my particular case is not possible yet (NFS-booting diskless
> workstations from a central server).
>
> I finally gave up on it and went back to Olaf Kirch's nfs-server package.  I'll
> try knfsd again when 2.4 comes out in a couple of years. ;)
>
>                                 -sam
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