Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Brian May
> "Alisdair" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alisdair> The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are totally Alisdair> different across the two machines: e.g. the UID for Alisdair> alisdair on letdown is the UID for knox on skinny. Is Alisdair> there a sensible way

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:03:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > try adding > > /directorytobeexported hostname_to_export_to(ro,no_root_squash) This works well, thanks. > you could do that, or just setup one user/group and add everyone to it > that nee

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >Ah. I just tried putting it in /etc/fstab, and doing mount as alisda >alisdair, and it worked :-) cool.. alisda >> if its root that is mounting it you may want tot ry the alisda >> no_root_squash option alisda > alisda >I get `no such option

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:47:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > alisda >I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for > alisda >this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a > alisda >Debian package for knfsd, and

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for alisda >this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a alisda >Debian package for knfsd, and is it easy to install? make sure the user mounting the NFS share

NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm trying to set up an NFS server to share my MP3 directory across the network: both machines are running current potato and 2.2.13, with nfs-common and nfs-server on each. My exports file on letdown (the server) is: /var/local/mp3 skinny(ro) On skinny, doing mount letdown:/var/local/mp3/ /mnt