Hi,
Pardon if these questions are contained in a FAQ somewhere; however, I'm
confused about some issues.
I installed Redhat 6.2 on one of our PCs here at work for the primary
purpose of serving out some directories to NT PCs via NFS (since most of
them have Hummingbird's NFS Maestro Solo installed). I also needed to serve
those same directories out for NFS access from some target hardware running
VxWorks. Here's what actions that I took:
1. From the GUI install, selected support for NFS.
2. After firing up Linux on the PC, I was able to determine that I needed to
at least activate the NFS daemons. So, I fired up nfsd from
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs and made appropriate links to that script in the
runlevel subdirectories.
3. I then exported out a directory from the PC by placing an entry in
/etc/exports and activating it by issuing an "exportfs -a" command.
4. Determined that I could hook up to this exported directory from another
inhouse Sun machine on which I have an account.
5. After further research, determined that I probably needed to be running
pcnfsd to allow the NFS clients on the PCs to hook up to this export.
6. Found pcnfsd on the redhat contrib site. Downloaded, installed via rpm,
and activated it from the startup scripts.
7. Tried to hookup from an NT workstation running the Maestro client.
Maestro can see the exported share from the Linux box. Unfortunately, I am
getting an authorization error even though I am supplying a valid account
for the Linux box.
8. Notes: Connectivity is not an issue since I can ping the Linux box from
my PC.
Questions:
1. Running "cat /proc/filesystems" does not list NFS as one of the
filesystems. It only lists the following:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
ext2
nodev proc
iso9660
nodev devpts
msdos
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
Would this imply that I need to recompile the kernel from sources to ensure
support for NFS?? And that the check box in the install was only for
inclusion of the nfs-related tools?? Btw, if this is true, why was I able to
hook up from another Unix box?? I am probably going to try recompiling the
kernel from sources next.
2. I got the binary rpm for pcnfsd from the redhat contrib ftp site with
support for shadow passwords which I have enabled. Should I just recompile
this daemon from sources instead of using that binary rpm?? If so, where can
I get the shadow password library stuff, because as near as I can tell it is
not included in the install and compiling pcnfsd from source seems to
require this library.
3. I have not tried Samba yet for sharing out this resource; however, that
may be a possibility soon as well. Is it going to be much of problem with
that and that this PC is not a part of the NT domain the other workstations
requesting that shared resource would be??
4. Are there any good resources (especially relating to pcnfsd) on the Web
anywhere?? I have a number of NFS-related stuff @linuxdoc.org and done
searches at www.google.com/linux. I was just wondering if there was anything
more concise (or related). Maybe someone else has gone through these types
of travail.
Any information, hints, clues, solutions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
mark
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