[newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Anders Lind
Hello again, now I have sampled more info when I try to mount the NFS-server on my client machine I get error message: mount: RPC: The program is not registred. I log into the server box and do the command rpcinfo -p and in the info that comes up I get the portmapper and statusports. I am

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:54 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, now I have sampled more info when I try to mount the NFS-server on my client machine I get error message: mount: RPC: The program is not registred. I log into the server box and do the command rpcinfo -p and in the info

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Anders Lind
Do you have nfs-utils-clients RPM installed in your client machine? Yes, although the server-utils didn't seem to be installed on the server machine, but that is now fixed And have you exported your NFS shares in your server? Your /etc/exports file should contain your shares in a

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 10:40 am, Anders Lind wrote: Do you have nfs-utils-clients RPM installed in your client machine? Yes, although the server-utils didn't seem to be installed on the server machine, but that is now fixed And have you exported your NFS shares in your server? Your

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Anders Lind
What is rpcinfo ? I do not have it installed on my computer (or an rpc service) , but NFS works perfectly. Hmmm...interesting, I am following the NFS howto and rpc comes with NFS-package if I have understood it correctly BTW: 'kwikdisk' is handy to mount NFS shares if you are using KDE,

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 11:17 am, Anders Lind wrote: What is rpcinfo ? I do not have it installed on my computer (or an rpc service) , but NFS works perfectly. Hmmm...interesting, I am following the NFS howto and rpc comes with NFS-package if I have understood it correctly BTW:

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Derek Jennings
Thanks, this did not help...but I at least get another errormessage now...feels like I am getting closerNow I get: mount: wrong type of filesystem, erranous flag, error in superblock on 192.168.2.8:/home/anders, or too many mounted filesystems. I let Control Center write to /etc/fstab

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Anders Lind
Couple of things to check. 1/ In your /etc/exports file there should not be any spaces between the subnet mask and the (rw) access. No space between 2/ If you can see the share displayed in the MCC GUI, then the share is obviously being exported. But have you been putting anything in

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:22 am, you wrote: Be sure to unmount NFS shares before shutting down either server or client, or else it takes ages to time out and shut down. derek Hi Derek. HmmI don't have that problem here. I never umount my NFS stuff before closing down - and all

Re: [newbie] NFS Part II

2002-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 03:54 am, you wrote: Hello again, snip Hmm, lemme just walk thru some stuff on mine and maybe it will help point you in the right direction: Client computer: 3 main files to edit: /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny I'm using /home/darklord/tmp as my