Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 GMT Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > [New readers start here... :) ] > > > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > > to get my i5 box to export its por

Re: Gentoo wiki [was: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED]

2024-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 December 2024 00:55:38 GMT Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > What does the team think can be done about it? > > I'm not a Gentoo dev, merely someone who (a) has Strong Opinions > about the need for good documentation, and (b) has contributed > significantly to various FOSS

Gentoo wiki [was: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED]

2024-12-04 Thread Alexis
Peter Humphrey writes: What does the team think can be done about it? i'm not a Gentoo dev, merely someone who (a) has Strong Opinions about the need for good documentation, and (b) has contributed significantly to various FOSS docs, most recently the Gentoo wiki[a]. First and foremost,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:28:44 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time Matt Jolly wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey > > > wrote: > > >Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do something > >myself, but how? I raised a bug against a document once, only to be

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Peter, On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do something >myself, but how? I raised a bug against a document once, only to be rebuked. You can raise issues on the "Talk" page for a given article, e.g. https

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 11:44:50 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > ... I think there should be clearer disambiguation with separate examples > between v3 and v4. However, isn't NFS v3 considered legacy by now? Perhaps, but that wiki page was apparently last changed on 2 August this year. -

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 11:29:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > > I had (another) look at the wiki. You're right, it seems to describe > > NFSv3 > > only. I don't have NFSv3 here to compare. With NFSv4 you export the > > gl

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > > to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a > > chroo

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > [New readers start here... :) ] > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a > chroot on my M9 machine. I r

[gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-11-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, [New readers start here... :) ] I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a chroot on my M9 machine. I read all the docs, I thought about the help that was offered here, I change

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 14:21:27 GMT Michael wrote: > On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:07:13 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've always used static addresses. The exception is the wireless network, > > on which things come and go. I'm confident in dnsmasq on the wired LAN - > > it's been running f

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Michael
On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:07:13 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 31 October 2024 09:52:23 GMT Michael wrote: > > Hmm ... if your NFS configuration works over wired Ethernet, but not over > > wireless, this could point to a lower network level problem. > > I remember you said something

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 09:52:23 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 30 October 2024 23:24:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 17 October 2024 16:00:36 GMT I wrote: > > > > --->8 > > > > Well, it looks as though I have it working, over an Ethernet link anyway. > > There's now no /mnt/n

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 30 October 2024 23:24:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2024 16:00:36 GMT I wrote: > > --->8 > > Well, it looks as though I have it working, over an Ethernet link anyway. > There's now no /mnt/nfs with fsid=0, with the portage tree and the packages > directory mou

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 October 2024 16:00:36 GMT I wrote: --->8 Well, it looks as though I have it working, over an Ethernet link anyway. There's now no /mnt/nfs with fsid=0, with the portage tree and the packages directory mounted below it. This is /etc/exports on the i5: /var/db/repos/gentoo wstn.prh

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 12:36:23 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I should have added that the remote compilation works well with the cable. > > I have found though that the linux-firmware ebuild requires the /boot > > partition to be mounted,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I should have added that the remote compilation works well with the cable. I > have found though that the linux-firmware ebuild requires the /boot partition > to be mounted, which it shouldn't be on a foreign machine, so I say > emerge -uaDvN -

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 22:07:06 BST I wrote: > Also while bug-hunting, I found an extra-long Ethernet cable and strung the > i5 into the LAN that way. The M9 only ever sees the LAN, whereas I can now > start and stop the LAN and WLAN at will on the i5. The Fritz!Box router > sits at the juncti

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 20:29:14 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 18:01:55 BST Matt Jolly wrote: > > It should not matter; the virtual root involves bind mounting directories > > into a single location - that could be 4 different partitions, a bunch of > > subvolumes, or some dire

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 18:01:55 BST Matt Jolly wrote: > It should not matter; the virtual root involves bind mounting directories > into a single location - that could be 4 different partitions, a bunch of > subvolumes, or some directories scattered across a single partition, or > some combinat

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Matt Jolly
It should not matter; the virtual root involves bind mounting directories into a single location - that could be 4 different partitions, a bunch of subvolumes, or some directories scattered across a single partition, or some combination of those options.Cheers,MattOn 22 Oct 2024 23:36, Michael wro

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 13:00:14 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 10:14:48 BST Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:10:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > > > > Assuming all required directories are on the s

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 10:14:48 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:10:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > > > Assuming all required directories are on the same fs, what happens if > > > you > > > *only* export the parent direc

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:10:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > > Assuming all required directories are on the same fs, what happens if you > > *only* export the parent directory? Something like this: > > > > /mnt/nfs \ > > 192.168.178.7/32(

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > Assuming all required directories are on the same fs, what happens if you > *only* export the parent directory? Something like this: > > /mnt/nfs \ > 192.168.178.7/32(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=250,an > ongid=250)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-21 Thread Michael
On Monday 21 October 2024 03:12:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 18 October 2024 15:55:19 BST Michael wrote: > > --->8 > > > exportfs -rav > > Ah! I knew about 'exportfs -r' but not the 'av'. When I added that I got > this: > > exportfs: duplicated export entries: > exportfs: > :1

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/10/24 10:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 18 October 2024 15:55:19 BST Michael wrote: --->8 exportfs -rav Ah! I knew about 'exportfs -r' but not the 'av'. When I added that I got this: exportfs: duplicated export entries: exportfs: :192.168.178.7(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 October 2024 15:55:19 BST Michael wrote: --->8 > exportfs -rav Ah! I knew about 'exportfs -r' but not the 'av'. When I added that I got this: exportfs: duplicated export entries: exportfs: :192.168.178.7(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=250,anongid=250) e

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-18 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 10/18/24 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Greetings, Let me try this again. Why should an NFS server wait 15 seconds before reporting "No such file or directory"? Are there any errors in the log on the server? Increasing the verbosity of the log there might be informative.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-18 Thread Michael
On Friday 18 October 2024 14:41:03 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > Let me try this again. > > Why should an NFS server wait 15 seconds before reporting "No such file or > directory"? I couldn't find anything conspicuously wrong in your setup, but I don't have much in depth experience

[gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, Let me try this again. Why should an NFS server wait 15 seconds before reporting "No such file or directory"? -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, It's me again with another tyro problem. I'm trying to set up my big Ryzen M9 workstation as compute host for my desktop PC, which is an i5 NUCI. I had the same arrangement working well with the i5's predecessor, but I can't make it work this time. The idea is to NFS-export the i5's

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS connection refused

2022-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 20 May 2022 15:35:25 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > This machine is a compute-server for other machines on the network, which it > does by NFS-mounting the portage directories in a chroot. You may remember > that I've messed about a bit with USE flags and the like, but only

[gentoo-user] NFS connection refused

2022-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This machine is a compute-server for other machines on the network, which it does by NFS-mounting the portage directories in a chroot. You may remember that I've messed about a bit with USE flags and the like, but only on this machine, the compute server and NFS client. The other ma

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:49:48 GMT Michael wrote: > I'm glad you got it going. I don't use NFS at the moment, but with a fleet > of ancient systems hanging around I may start doing this soon to accelerate > emerges for most of them by using a faster PC. Well, I haven't got that far yet becau

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:43:18 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:27:54 GMT Michael wrote: > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > > > > or > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > > Well, even after all the times I read th

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:27:54 GMT Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:17:41 GMT netfab wrote: > > Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > > > script on the client > > > > > > Result: > > > * Mounting ch

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:17:41 GMT netfab wrote: > Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > > script on the client > > > > Result: > > * Mounting chroot dirs under /mnt/clrn ... > > mount.nfs: mounting 192.168.1.4:/m

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread netfab
Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > script on the client > > Result: > * Mounting chroot dirs under /mnt/clrn ... > mount.nfs: mounting 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage failed, reason given > by server: No such file or di

[gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I decided to have another go at fixing my nfs setup. The host 192.168.1.4 exports its portage directory to this host, 192.168.1.5. I used to use nfs-v3 for this, but it wasn't working right so I'm trying with v4. The problem is that, every time I tell this machine to mount the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2020-01-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/12/19 19:18, Daniel Frey wrote: > 2. On all NFS clients, including the NFS server which mounted other NFS > mounts, all NFS client options had to be selected or the mount would > fail. It didn't matter specifying nfsvers=4.0 as a mount option, it > failed if there was no NFS client kernel sup

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 December 2019 19:18:47 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2019-12-30 09:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is anyone feeling less clueless than me? I'm out of ideas now and hoping > > for some help. > > I set up a new NFS server in the last weeks or so and had this weird > problem where I couldn

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-30 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2019-12-30 09:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: Is anyone feeling less clueless than me? I'm out of ideas now and hoping for some help. I set up a new NFS server in the last weeks or so and had this weird problem where I couldn't most an NFSv4 export on clients. After a lot of head scratching,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 23 December 2019 16:50:58 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Since I set up IPv6 on my LAN, I've been unable to NFS-export a directory on > machine A (an Atom serving portage via git, among other things) and mount > it on machine B (this workstation). It was working fine until

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-29 Thread james
On 12/24/19 11:27 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 2019-12-24 02:17, Mick wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you are using IPv4, th

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. After losing my little server I decided to recommission another box I had handy. It's a four-core, 64-bit Celero

Re:: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Mick wrote : > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As > you > > > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. > > > > > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2019-12-24 02:17, Mick wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you are using IPv4, those should not be needed. I haven't had ti

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you > > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. > > > > I haven't had time to enable IPv6 y

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. > > I haven't had time to enable IPv6 yet, so can't check locally what works and > what doesn't. Well, wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you are using IPv4, those should not be needed. I haven't had time to enable IPv6 yet, so can't check locally what works and what doesn't. On 23 December 2019 17:50:58 CET, Peter Humphrey wrote: >Hello list, > >Since I set

[gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Since I set up IPv6 on my LAN, I've been unable to NFS-export a directory on machine A (an Atom serving portage via git, among other things) and mount it on machine B (this workstation). It was working fine until then, but now mount commands fail. In both kernels I have NFSv4 selected,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 10:35:36 BST Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:11 PM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Sunday, 18 August 2019 09:30:36 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > Is the output of 'mount | grep nfs' the same on the two client > > > machines? > > > > $ mount | grep nfs >

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:11 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 18 August 2019 09:30:36 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > Is the output of 'mount | grep nfs' the same on the two client machines? > > $ mount | grep nfs > nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > > nfs4 req

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 09:30:36 BST Adam Carter wrote: > Is the output of 'mount | grep nfs' the same on the two client machines? $ mount | grep nfs nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) It's the same on both clients. In the chroots, I see: atom / # mount | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2019 10:01:18 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On to the next problem... > >This workstation serves as compute host to two smaller boxes on the >network. I >NFS-mount the PORTDIR of the smaller box in a chroot on this one, then >do >emerging and so on to build packages which I install l

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 6:01 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On to the next problem... > > This workstation serves as compute host to two smaller boxes on the > network. I > NFS-mount the PORTDIR of the smaller box in a chroot on this one, then do > emerging and so on to build packages which I install

[gentoo-user] NFS setup

2019-08-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On to the next problem... This workstation serves as compute host to two smaller boxes on the network. I NFS-mount the PORTDIR of the smaller box in a chroot on this one, then do emerging and so on to build packages which I install later on the smaller box. That works fine on one of the smaller

[gentoo-user] NFS root suspend/resume solved

2018-12-15 Thread Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
For anyone following or just plain interested, I've solved the issue with diskless root over NFS not being able to resume correctly after suspending. nfsvers=4.0 on the boot line Using 4.2 has speed improvements but results in hardlocking on wakeup. Thank you to everyone that got involved, seei

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/06/18 09:44, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 11/06/18 09:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Well, "Windows ACLs" is the only ACL system that is standardized (as part >>> of >>> the NFSv4 standard). The old proposal in POSIX.1e from 1993 from Sun has >>> been >>> withdrawn

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Wols Lists wrote: > On 11/06/18 09:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Well, "Windows ACLs" is the only ACL system that is standardized (as part > > of > > the NFSv4 standard). The old proposal in POSIX.1e from 1993 from Sun has > > been > > withdrawn in 1997 since the customers did not like it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 11/06/18 09:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Wol's lists wrote: > >> On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: > ... >>> downsides as well, in particular it is certainly more complex and at >>> work we practically forbid any kind of windows ACLs at anything other >>> than the top mount level because

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Wol's lists wrote: > On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: ... > > downsides as well, in particular it is certainly more complex and at > > work we practically forbid any kind of windows ACLs at anything other > > than the top mount level because it is so hard to control. > > Windows is better t

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:31 PM Wol's lists wrote: > > On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I feel like this is something that Windows natively gets "better" than > > POSIX. They have a concept of UIDs being specific to a machine or > > authentication server (or domain as they call it), and

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On June 9, 2018 1:20:14 PM UTC, Tom H wrote: >On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman >wrote: >> >> Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on >NFS >> clients and servers? > >You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos. > >I've never tried it but "/etc/idmapd.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Wol's lists
On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: I feel like this is something that Windows natively gets "better" than POSIX. They have a concept of UIDs being specific to a machine or authentication server (or domain as they call it), and this concept is enforced at the host level. That said, I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 12:34 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > NFS will quite happily work with dissimilar IDs if you're using "other" > permission to access everything. }:-) > There are a few network filesystems with this property. As long as you just mount the whole filesystem with one user/group an

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 06/08/2018 10:42 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS clients and servers? I can argue that the IDs don't have to be synchronized to use NFS. You just end up with unexpected complications from different IDs on different systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos. I've never tried it but "/etc/idmapd.conf" has a "[Static]" section in which you can set up a

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 6:42:56 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? Not to my knowledge. I use OpenLDAP for my users and groups and this has worked perfectly ever since I implemented it. > Or, is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread dsonck
On 2018-06-09 09:41, Andrew Udvare wrote: On 2018-06-09, at 00:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS clients and servers? I checked and there is no way. It is recommended UID/GID be synced regularly on all client machines. NFSv4 requi

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2018-06-09, at 00:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? I checked and there is no way. It is recommended UID/GID be synced regularly on all client machines. NFSv4 requires user names and group names be

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/06/18 05:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? > > Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally > made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? Which filesystem do you mean? Do you mea

[gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS clients and servers? Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? This is the main reason I have mostly stayed away from NFS all these years. Recently sshf

Re: [gentoo-user] Nfs-utils update

2017-05-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 May 2017 14:52:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2017 13:37:15 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Today I was offered an update of net-fs/nfs-utils from 1.3.4 to > > 1.3.4-r1. It won't compile, complaining that there's no Kerberos v5 > > with GSS: "consider --disable-gss or --wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Nfs-utils update

2017-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 May 2017 13:37:15 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Today I was offered an update of net-fs/nfs-utils from 1.3.4 to > 1.3.4-r1. It won't compile, complaining that there's no Kerberos v5 > with GSS: "consider --disable-gss or --with-krb5=". But there's no > Kerberos here and it's not in my

[gentoo-user] Nfs-utils update

2017-05-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today I was offered an update of net-fs/nfs-utils from 1.3.4 to 1.3.4-r1. It won't compile, complaining that there's no Kerberos v5 with GSS: "consider --disable-gss or --with-krb5=". But there's no Kerberos here and it's not in my USE flags, and if I specify USE=-kerberos on the co

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

2017-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
During a routine update, emerge failed to compile nfs-utils: [...] context.c:40:26: fatal error: rpc/auth_gss.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [Makefile:660: gssd-context.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfini

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
oh, I guess I have to let it be! Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 July 2014 12:19:14 behrouz khosravi wrote: > oh my bad! > Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that. > Thanks for you help and again, may apologies. > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khos

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
oh my bad! Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that. Thanks for you help and again, may apologies. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > > I was wondering that is it possible to make porta

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: > I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a > subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I > dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. Please do not top-post Ple

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello every body. I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch. thanks On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 08:44:02 PM Kerin Millar wrote: > On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > >> Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: > >>> So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year > >>> without rpcb

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated to 1.3.0 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.07.2014 18:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to > manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing /usr/portage > via NFSv4. One client host mounts it without a problem, the thinkpads > don't do so ... just ano

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: > >> So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year >> without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was >> updated to 1.3.0 ?) >> >> The real problem here is

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: > So, why did the "broken" machine work normally for more than a year > without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was > updated to 1.3.0 ?) > > The real problem here is that I have no idea how NFS works, and each > new version is more com

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > NFS uses RPC to do some heavy lifting - I don't know how familiar you > are with this, so here's the quick version: > > When you mount something locally, and need to use the mounted > filesystem, kernel calls are used to get at the data. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/07/2014 04:47, walt wrote: > In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) > > For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the > gentoo machines on my LAN. > > Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. > > Example: two days ago I updated t

[gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-25 Thread walt
In this case, the brain dead sysadmin would be moi :) For years I've been using NFS to share /usr/portage with all of the gentoo machines on my LAN. Problem: occasionally it stops working for no apparent reason. Example: two days ago I updated two ~amd64 gentoo machines, both of which have bee

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-02 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-02 7:38 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs Thanks Bill, I will... But what do I need to restart to test the changes? I'd rather not have to reboot every time... Is it just rpcbind? Or do I need to restart nfs/nfsmmou

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-02 7:38 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs Thanks Bill, I will... But what do I need to restart to test the changes? I'd rather not have to reboot every time... Is it just rpcbind? Or do I need to restart nfs/nfsmmount too? Others? Thanks... hope I can ge

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs # If you wish to set the port numbers for lockd, # please see /etc/sysctl.conf # Optional services to include in default `/etc/init.d/nfs start` # For NFSv4 users, you'll want to add "rpc.idmapd" here. NFS_NEEDED_SERVICES="rpc.idmapd" # Number of servers to be starte

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
No one? Another reboot, and had to open up OUTGOING port 57212 this time. Why are the static ports I'm assigning not being used? On 2013-12-31 8:11 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-12-31 7:30 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I've made the following changes to the following config files: /etc/conf.d/nfs O

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-12-31 7:30 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I've made the following changes to the following config files: /etc/conf.d/nfs OPTS_RPC_MOUNTD="-p 32767" OPTS_RPC_STATD="-p 32765 -o 32766" I've also changed the lockd ports /etc/sysctl.conf # You should compile nfsd into the kernel or add it # to mo

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-12-30 3:25 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: This is for NFS CLIENT... I'm mounting NFS shares from my remote QNAP NAS boxes. I've tried specifying the ports in /etc/conf.d/nfs, and /etc sysctl.conf, but I must be missing something, because every time I reboot, some other port comes up being blocke

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-12-30 6:21 PM, Pavel Volkov wrote: I've tried specifying the ports in /etc/conf.d/nfs, and /etc >sysctl.conf, but I must be missing something, because every time I >reboot, some other port comes up being blocked when I try to mount the >shares... > >Anyone? The references I've found are

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS & static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-30 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Monday 30 December 2013 15:25:02 Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, my google-fu has failed me... > > I've found a few sites that describe how to set static ports for NFS > mounting remote shares (I use iptables for both inbound AND outbound, > and it is the outbound I'm having trouble with). > > This is

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