auto mounter and nfs question

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we have Debian and Redhah (blah :-) )servers. Their primary purpose is to serve files to users. We are trying to figure out a easy way to manage and export the mount points via NFS to Linux labs which have around 500 clients. Each server has a mount point like this: Server1 /bu

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:04:49AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 02.04.07 12:07, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server > > so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from > > it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some >

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.04.07 12:07, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server > so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from > it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some > instructions on setting up OS X as an NFS server? I wonder, why do you ask here

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:06:42PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:07 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, p

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:06:42PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:07 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server > > so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from > > it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to s

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:07 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server > so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from > it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some > instructions on setting up OS X as an NFS server? Paul, there a

Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-02 Thread michael
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:07:10 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote > I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server > so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from > it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some > instructions on setting up OS X as an NFS server? > Try here: ht

OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question

2007-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some instructions on setting up OS X as an NFS server? TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: NFS Question

2003-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Nyc0n wrote: > > Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and > > failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, > > I already have the drives I want to make

Re: NFS Question

2003-08-14 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Nyc0n wrote: > Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and > failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, > I already have the drives I want to make into the NFS, they are > currently reiserfs and already have stuff on

NFS Question

2003-08-14 Thread Nyc0n
Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, I already have the drives I want to make into the NFS, they are currently reiserfs and already have stuff on them, do they have to be blank? Or can I

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:58:24PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Oh well, learn something every day, as they say... ;-) > > I recently set up NFS on a box and read the relevant parts of > 'man mount' and 'man fstab' but didn't recall that. root_squash doesn't have anything to do with mount or fs

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Hall Stevenson > wrote: > > > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > > > > I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but > > I might assume it's either ignored or not valid. > > No, it's valid... Oh well, learn something every d

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > > I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I > might assume it's either ignored or not valid. No, it's valid. root_squash causes root (on the client) to not h

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Oct 16 11:20:18 2001 Hall Stevenson wrote... > >> /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > >I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I >might assume it's either ignored or not valid. When you >exported it, it spit back some 'status' info but no mention of >that o

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 09:44, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a potato (+ Progeney + 24.9 kernel) system to act as an > nfs server to a HP-UX machine. > > Here is what I have in /etc/exports > > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > > The Debian machine is debain, the HP

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
> /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I might assume it's either ignored or not valid. When you exported it, it spit back some 'status' info but no mention of that option. > But I get this from the HP-UX machine, when I try

What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get a potato (+ Progeney + 24.9 kernel) system to act as an nfs server to a HP-UX machine. Here is what I have in /etc/exports /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) The Debian machine is debain, the HP-UX one is phse7. When I run "rpc.nfsd -d auth -F I get the fo

Re: [OT] NFS question

2001-07-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall > > Stevenson uttered: > > > When they're not mounted, they're both owned by > > > hall.users. When they're mounted, they're owned > > > by amy.hall. > > > > > > amy and hall are both users on the system. The group > > > "users" exists also and hal

Re: [OT] NFS question

2001-07-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
Steve Kowalik wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson uttered: > > When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're > > mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. > > > > amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "users" exists also > > and h

Re: [OT] NFS question

2001-07-22 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson uttered: > When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're > mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. > > amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "users" exists also > and hall is a member of it. > What is h

Re: [OT] NFS question

2001-07-22 Thread Guy Geens
> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hall> How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got Hall> two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the Hall> same. Hall> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When Hall> they're moun

[OT] NFS question

2001-07-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the same. When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "use

NFS question

2001-03-18 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm trying to move a /var tree to a (kernel-) NFS mounted volume on a debian/potato box with a 2.4.2 kernel. Before doing so everything worked fine, but now I seem to have problems getting some permissions right; the NFS (server side) kernel complains with: fh_verify: lprng/lpd.printe

Re: Linux NFS question

1998-07-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in > linux until 2.1.5? > > Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to > mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the > linux box.

Re: dselect nfs question

1998-02-28 Thread Bill N
I've seen the same problem. I assume it is a problem with dselect because if you mount the nfs filesystem by hand, choose "mounted" as the access method, and point to the mount point, dselect works OK. It appears that dselect does not try to mount the filesystem because of what it perceives as an

Re: dselect nfs question

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
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

Re: dselect nfs question

1998-02-27 Thread Tim Sailer
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 > install

dselect nfs question

1998-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
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