Niki Kovacs wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS > From: > Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> > Date: > Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:33:31 +0200 > To: > Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> > > To: > Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> > > > Frank Cox a écrit : >> >> There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client >> mount. Set >> up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 192.168.0.3) >> >> /whatever/where-ever/ 192.168.0.3(rw) >> >> Start the nfs service. Create a mount point on the client >> >> "mkdir /mnt/fileserver" >> >> then mount the fileserver there. >> "mount fileserver:/whatever/where-ever/ /mnt/fileserver" >> > > That's about exactly what I did. I setup the NFS server on machine > 'raymonde' (192.168.1.4) on my local network. Then when I do this from > another machine: > > [root at lifebook ~]# mount raymonde:/data /home/shares > > Nothing happens for about a minute or so, and then I get the following > error: > > mount.nfs: Input/output error > > Which leaves me clueless. > > Any idea what might go wrong here? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Niki, nfs v2 and v3 are fairly simple, however I have not yet managed v4 as it seem to need kerberos and individual user authentication rather than machine authentication as do v2 & v3. If you use a firewall on your server, you will need to set up permanent ports for the various services that nfs uses. check out /etc/sysconfig/nfs rpcinfo -p will show you what is running and what version and ports - very useful!! HTH Rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090704/68fd4697/attachment-0005.vcf>