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You need to display the way you mount the nfs mount and the host table.

I had that problem until I realize the following: 1. My machine, orion had 1 address for the wired 2. when it switched to wireless, the network switch another sub-network. Result I loss my connection.

I fixed this by setting my mount point to 127.0.0.1. When I switch network, it no longer breaks the nfs mount.

Currently I mount them like: mount 192.168.0.22:/storage /home/user/shares/storage How do I switch the mount point to 127.0.0.1? 127.0.0.1 is in the hosts files as localhost. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 11:21 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

2009/7/28 James Pifer :

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You need to display the way you mount the nfs mount and the host table.

I had that problem until I realize the following: 1. My machine, orion had 1 address for the wired 2. when it switched to wireless, the network switch another sub-network. Result I loss my connection.

I fixed this by setting my mount point to 127.0.0.1. When I switch network, it no longer breaks the nfs mount.

Currently I mount them like:

mount 192.168.0.22:/storage /home/user/shares/storage

How do I switch the mount point to 127.0.0.1?

127.0.0.1 is in the hosts files as localhost.

Thanks, James

Maybe in 10.3 the default option is to use UDP and in 11.1 is TCP?, try specifying "proto=udp" as an option....

Regards,

Tried udp. Was able to mount it, but as soon as I pulled the network cable, the mount went away. Btw, when mine switches from wired to wireless, the ip addres stays the same, hence same subnet as well. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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I assume that your nfs server is the same machine. If it is, just change the address to 127.0.0.1 and it will mount your machine. I personally like to make things a bit more symbolic by using a host name. My machine has in the host table 127.0.0.1 localhost orion1

I just use orion1:/storage

The NFS server(s) are on other machines. Possibly dumb question, what would the point be of mounting nfs on the same machine? Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

AutoFS might be a good option too, it will mount the share on demand (each time a user requests to access the mount point. Regards, Ciro 2009/7/29, Joseph Loo :

James Pifer wrote:

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I assume that your nfs server is the same machine. If it is, just change the address to 127.0.0.1 and it will mount your machine. I personally like to make things a bit more symbolic by using a host name. My machine has in the host table 127.0.0.1 localhost orion1

I just use orion1:/storage

The NFS server(s) are on other machines. Possibly dumb question, what would the point be of mounting nfs on the same machine?

Thanks, James

The reason is that I use autofs. This allows the nfs mounts to occur on a user by user basis. A user might be on the local machine or another machine. That way, the data follows the user not the machine. So if you couple ldap with the autofs, you can have a central area containing the user password and mount location. Then you can log onto any machine using ldap and your home directory will be mounted automatically. In addition, autofs allows you to have secondary servers to provide your data. If the primary server goes down, the secondary server will be taken over.

You might want to change your option to soft, intr as part of your mount options. This should allow the nfs mounts to be interrupted. If you loose the mount, can you do a remount to get the data?

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Hi there, On Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 14:54:03 +0200, James Pifer wrote:

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:09 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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AutoFS might be a good option too, it will mount the share on demand (each time a user requests to access the mount point.

Regards, Ciro

Trying autofs. No luck getting it to work so far. Looking at the man page and google, but not sure what I'm doing wrong.

My auto.master has: # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). # #/misc /etc/auto.misc # # NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the # "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev" # options are explicitly given. # #/net -hosts # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as # above) in the included master map any keys that are the # same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes # precedence. # +auto.master /home/user/shares auto.shares

I created an executable /etc/auto.shares and it has:

No need to make it executable; this is only needed for a real shell script emitting some dynamically calculated data - for an example, take a look at /etc/auto.net

storage rw 192.168.0.22:/storage mythtv rw 192.168.0.16:/mythtv

This should look like: storage -tcp,rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 192.168.0.22:/storage mythtv -tcp,rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 192.168.0.16:/mythtv With this map, you can access e.g. 192.168.0.22:/storage at /home/user/shares/storage . Of course, the "tcp", "rsize=" and "wsize=" options depend on your actual network settings. You can find all the details about the autofs *maps* in autofs(5).

Start the autofs service.

In /var/log/messages I get nothing, but it doesn't automount either.

Any ideas?

Thanks, James

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Hi James, On Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 16:38:32 +0200, James Pifer wrote:

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This should look like:

storage -tcp,rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 192.168.0.22:/storage mythtv -tcp,rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 192.168.0.16:/mythtv

With this map, you can access e.g. 192.168.0.22:/storage at /home/user/shares/storage .

Of course, the "tcp", "rsize=" and "wsize=" options depend on your actual network settings.

I tried this and if I make auto.shares NOT executable, then I get these errors in the log file when I try to access the mount: Aug 3 10:32:18 user-8710w automount[15947]: lookup_nss_mount: key "storage" not found in map. Aug 3 10:32:19 user-8710w automount[15947]: lookup_nss_mount: key "mythtv" not found in map.

That's what I got before as well, and googled it. Came across someone saying make it executable. That takes the errors away, but things still don't work.

Dunno what you're doing wrong, but you must be doing something wrong because I just tested this on my systems and it worked OK! There were only two items I changed: /etc/auto.master: #+ I don't have this '+' entry; according to auto.master(5), the # + [map-type,format:]map[options] can be "included from its source # as if it were itself present in the master map; dunno if you have # such a "source"... /home/user/shares /etc/auto.shares # Use an absolute pathname for the mapfile

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You can find all the details about the autofs *maps* in autofs(5).

Yeah, went through the man page and only got so far.

Thanks, James

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On Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 17:24:11 +0200, James Pifer wrote:

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Dunno what you're doing wrong, but you must be doing something wrong because I just tested this on my systems and it worked OK! There were only two items I changed:

Me neither. Commented out the +... in auto.master. Still same result.

Did you actually restart the autofs service? Changes to the maps are accomodated on the fly, but changes to /etc/auto.master require a /etc/init.d/autofs restart

James

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2009/8/3 James Pifer :

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:09 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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AutoFS might be a good option too, it will mount the share on demand (each time a user requests to access the mount point.

Regards, Ciro

Trying autofs. No luck getting it to work so far. Looking at the man page and google, but not sure what I'm doing wrong.

My auto.master has: # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). # #/misc  /etc/auto.misc # # NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the #       "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev" #       options are explicitly given. # #/net   -hosts # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as # above) in the included master map any keys that are the # same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes # precedence. # +auto.master /home/user/shares           auto.shares

I created an executable /etc/auto.shares and it has: storage     rw      192.168.0.22:/storage mythtv      rw      192.168.0.16:/mythtv

Start the autofs service.

In /var/log/messages I get nothing, but it doesn't automount either.

Any ideas?

Thanks, James

Did you try to access /home/user/shares/storage or /home/user/shares/mythtv ?, they won't be mounted until you try to access them (try ls $dir).... They'll be unmounted 60 seconds after the last process releases any open file. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org