On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Bill Heese wrote:
Hi All,
I must be missing something...
Everytime i try to mount an NFS volume served from my SUSE box i get an error that says that a PCNFSD error has occured. (the service is not registered on the remote system)
What I'm looking to do is allow users to mount thier home directories.
My /etc/exports file looks like this:
/home 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) /home/bheese 10.0.1.20(rw)
Not sure I've ever run into a PCNFSD error on a *nix box yet... I am not a guru, but I've beat my head against the wall on NFS a time or three over the last couple years. My suggestion is to check a few things first: Check and make sure that you don't have a firewall interfering w/ things. Can't tell you exactly what ports need to be open, as thats my boggle currently ;) I do know that I had fits trying to get a RH 7.1 box to mount a share, but it was authenticated on the other end. The firewall (default ipchains medium security) was blocking the return confirmation message. Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. IIRC, RPC does utilize these, so if you have things blocked here, it can wreak havok. Make sure the portmapper and nfsserver daemons are up and running, i.e. lansvr:/ # rcportmap status Checking for RPC portmap daemon: OK lansvr:/ # rcnfsserver status Checking for kernel based NFS server: running lansvr:/ # If all else fails, I'd suggest trying something like this in your /etc/exports just to get things working (hopefully) /cdrom *(ro) This will give *everybody* read-only access to your cdrom drive (mount a CD beforehand) Then save the file, then I do the following: lansvr:/ # exportfs -rv exporting *:/media/cdrom lansvr:/ # rcnfsserver restart Shutting down kernel based NFS server done Starting kernel based NFS server done lansvr:/ # Then on the client do the following to test it out: demandred:~ # mount -t nfs lansvr:/cdrom /mnt demandred:~ # ls /mnt . ChangeLog autorun.inf setup .. INDEX.gz disks setup.exe .S.u.S.E-disk-001.2001100117 LIESMICH docu setup.mnu ARCHIVES.gz LIESMICH.DOS dosutils suse COPYING README full-names unsorted COPYING.tex README.DOS ls-lR.gz COPYRIGHT SuSEgo.ico pubring.gpg COPYRIGHT.yast TRANS.TBL rr_moved demandred:~ # And confirm on the server by doing: lansvr:/ # showmount -a All mount points on lansvr: 192.168.1.3:/media/cdrom lansvr:/ # Hopefully that should get you rolling. I normally export my stuff like this in /etc/exports: /cdrom *.milanuk.net(ro) /home *.milanuk.net(rw) I would question whether or not it is a good idea to export both the directory /home _and_ your individual home directory /home/bheese. I remember there being something about it that required rather precise sematics in the exports file, or something like that. HTH, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com