[SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
I was trying to get an NFS system going for computer Bank New England on the weekend and the whole process eluded me. The situation is: a) Primary server containing the home directories. b) Multiple desktops mounting that server for their home directory. The exports file was:

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Still
On 9 Jun 2003, Ken Foskey wrote: The mount was being tried and I got a message that the mount was failing but not authorised. The last part I got an RPC message from the client, I think the firewall settings stopped the connection altogether. The default Redhat firewall config will stop NFS.

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:45, Michael Still wrote: On 9 Jun 2003, Ken Foskey wrote: The mount was being tried and I got a message that the mount was failing but not authorised. The last part I got an RPC message from the client, I think the firewall settings stopped the connection

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 9:57 pm, Monday, June 9 2003, Ken Foskey mumbled: I did try to run tcpdump (not installed) I am kicking myself as this is classic NFS debugging, I should have remembered that. You should also check hosts.{allow,deny} for portmap. Cheers, --

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... You should also check hosts.{allow,deny} for portmap. .. and make sure you have portmap installed and running. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread umug
Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The exports file was: The exports file is pretty sensitive to errors, a space in the wrong place will ruin your case. (I don't even have to try to be lame) /home/teachers/ 192.168.0.*(rw,no-rootsquash) I haven't seen no-rootsquash before, its