Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a FBSD box servering several users. We want to mount a stand-alone > FBSD box to access the files on it. I am thinking NFS. > > When installing NFS, the stand-alone box would be the NFS server, correct? > And multi-user box would be the N

Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread pete wright
On 12/12/06, David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a FBSD box servering several users. We want to mount a stand-alone FBSD box to access the files on it. I am thinking NFS. When installing NFS, the stand-alone box would be the NFS server, correct? And multi-user box would be the NFS cl

Re: NFS question...

2005-08-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Eric Murphy wrote: If I chmod my $HOMEDIR to 777, then you can read/write to it. But, if I export it via /etc/exports (NFS), you can't mount it unless you're root. Expected behavior, seems to me, in light of my experience with 'Nixes. why not use an automounter (amd..any

Re: NFS question...

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Eric Murphy wrote: Hey guys... Ive setup a NFS correctly (I think) on my BSD 5.4 box Added nfs_enable_enable="yes" rpcbind_enable="yes" portmap_enable="yes" in my rc.conf and its seems to be working... My question is this.. I can mount the shares without anyproblems as root... I CAN

Re: NFS question...

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 02:51 CEST schrieb Eric Murphy: > Hey guys... > > Ive setup a NFS correctly (I think) on my BSD 5.4 box > > Added > > nfs_enable_enable="yes" > rpcbind_enable="yes" > portmap_enable="yes" > > in my rc.conf > > and its seems to be working... > > My question is this.. > >

Re: NFS question

2005-06-13 Thread munn
Bingo! Lowell Gilbert wrote: munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am trying to NFS connect to a server machine using mount_nfs. I get the following message RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive. An 'identical' machine connects without a message and the mount works

Re: NFS question

2005-06-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to NFS connect to a server machine using mount_nfs. I get > the following message > > RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive. An > 'identical' machine connects without a message and the mount works. > > Does anybody know wh

Re: NFS question

2005-06-13 Thread Tony Shadwick
The only things that come to mind here are to make sure rcp/portmapper is running, make sure you have all of the appropriate _enable="YES" messages in rc.conf, and to reboot. That last isn't required, you can -HUP all of the processes involved, but this way you see what happens upon reboot too

Re: NFS Question

2004-11-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 4, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Is there any way of knowing who is actively using NFS shares, or who has mounted partitions from it? Try "showmount -a". NFS is a stateless protocol, so the information may not be perfectly accurate... -- -Chuck __

Re: NFS Question

2004-11-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 04), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > Is there any way of knowing who is actively using NFS shares, or who > has mounted partitions from it? NFS is stateless so there's no need for the server to keep track of who has mounted a volume. The "showmount" command will print a