On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > This question is overly vague; sorry ... : > : > I started playing with nfs today (nothing like a little excitement on a : > friday). I've got a 9 gig partition on a BSDI box, which holds my ftp : > mirror of debian, among other things. I want to be able to do local : > installs via nfs. So I fought my way through BSDI nfs config, and I can : > now mount the filesystem on most any server I choose. So far, so good. : > : > However, when I choose the 'nfs' method from dselect, it says my BSDI : > box isn't an nfs server. I think this has something to do with RPC. My : > guess is that Linux and BSDI are using different versions of RPC. : : Nope.. that shouldn't metter.. nfs is nfs.
Ok ... but dselect gives me an RPC version error (I looked into it a little further) : > I'm sure if I read the right fm I can figure this out, but I'm a bit : > lost here - I've never delved into nfs or RPC at all :/ Any pointers as : > to which fm's to r? : : Just curious, if this is a virgin install, did you choose to install : the nfs module? You need nfs support into kernel to be able to nfs : mount anything. If this is a working installation, try running : "showmount -e your.nfs.server.com" and see what it says. : : Tim Well, I'm not editing out the server names/numbers because the intent here is to make an nfs mount publically available. (I'll just filter you at the router if you abuse me :) So, here's what we've got. brahe is the BSDI box with the filesystem which is nfs shared. kepler is a debian linux box, running unstable. I've tried this on two debian linux boxes, running stable, with the same result. All three boxes work as shown here ... kepler:~ $ sudo showmount -e brahe.midco.net Export list for brahe.midco.net: /ftp/pub (everyone) kepler:~ $ sudo mount -t nfs -o ro brahe:/ftp/pub /mnt kepler:~ $ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda5 on /var type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda6 on /tmp type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda7 on /var/tmp type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda8 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda9 on /home type ext2 (rw) brahe:/ftp/pub on /mnt type nfs (ro,addr=208.146.80.105) All file operations work, I've mapped all access to a user, the filesystem is shared read-only. Weird, eh? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
