Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jonathan Brooks <jonathan.brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Loo wrote:
> In SUSE 10.0 they finally got the /net working right again. Why don't
> you turn on the atuofs, setup, auto.master, and auto.net. Then as a
> standard user say the machine is crab, you can then do a cd
> /net/crab/to-your_exported_directory. It requires no root command. If
> you turn on the timeout, if you are not using it, it will even unmount
> the file without any problem.
> 
> Jonathan Brooks wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm also having a few problems with NFS on SuSE 10. I am trying to mount
>> resources from a SLES 9 machine, presumably set up for nfsvers 3???
>>
>> Each boot time, I get the error message that the "server reports TCP
>> unavailable, resorting to UDP". I also occasionally see error messages
>> to the effect of "server reports nfsvers 4 not available, switching to
>> version 3".
>>
>> All in all, it means that each time I reboot my SuSE 10 machine, I have
>> to log in as root and issue the command: mount -vat nfs, and more often
>> than not this will pick up the nfs drives that aren't being mounted at
>> boot time.
>>
>> FYI, here's the lines from /etc/fstab:
>>
>> 163.1.82.28:/home       /home   nfs
>> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0
>> 163.1.82.28:/home1      /home1  nfs
>> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0
>> 163.1.82.28:/home2      /home2  nfs
>> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0
>>
>> What are the implications of using UDP and nfsvers=2 on
>> security/performance etc.????
>>
>> Anyone know what's going on? I have another AMD64 machine (SuSE 9.3),
>> which has exactly the same problem.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>  
>>> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 15:21 -0500, Dan Nash wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I have an Apple OS X 10.4.3 that was successfully connected to Suse 
>>>> Linux 9.2 NFS server. I upgraded to Suse 10.0 and now the Apple 
>>>> cannot find the Linux server. It can successfully ping the Linux IP 
>>>> address. What settings do I need when starting the Linux NFS 
>>>> services? There must be some differences between 9.2 and 10.0 that 
>>>> I'm missing.
>>>>       
>>> Probably the same thing I went through with OS-9 (Microware, not Apple)
>>> connectivity. The 2.6 kernel (where NFS now lives) uses a newer version
>>> of NFS by default. It also uses udp instead of tcp.
>>>
>>> Can you mount an export from OS/X on SUSE 10.0?
>>>
>>> When mounting on SUSE 10.0, I needed to add this to the fstab options:
>>>
>>>     udp,nfsvers=2
>>>
>>> I do not know how you specify this when exporting. Or even if you can.
>>> But maybe this will get you started in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>  
>>>     
>>
>>   
> 
Hi Joseph,

Thanks for the info, but rather than using automounting, I would like to
be able to use NFS options in /etc/fstab. I would dearly like to know
why our AMD64 machines have so much trouble connecting to our SLES
server to mount NFS drives at boot time.

Automounting is a great system, but I don't need it here. There are only
a few machines to administer, and fstab is just easier.

Best wishes,

Jon.
-- 
Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.)
Research Assistant. PaIN Group,
Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX
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