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[Dave Driscoll <ddriscoll@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To clarify: I have 3 machines. The others are both nfs servers and clients.The
suse machine is currently an nfs client and I want it to be a server too.
Showmout -e gives:
suse:/home/driscoll # showmount -e
Export list for suse:
/home/driscoll/Mail *
my /etc/exports:
/home/driscoll/Mail     *(ro,no_root_squash,sync,insecure_locks)
But when I try to mount this directory from another machine running hpux, it
reports an rpcbind failure and time out. I suspect the problem is something
specific to the interaction between suse and hpux. The insecure_locks is from
something I found while googling that said hpux needed it although it did not
seem to help. I have already tried the obvious (I did RTFM). I am looking for
some tips on debugging nfs when it doesn't work or maybe someone who has
gotten hpux and suse to play nice together can tell me the magic word.

Thanks,
Dave 
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:58:33PM -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
> You might want to try two things: do a showmount -e yourserver both on 
> your client and your server machine. This will tell you if the nfserver 
> is even up and running. Did you make sure that the nfsserver is running. 
> It seems SUSE does not enable the server explicitly (good thing). You 
> need to make sure it is up and running.
> 
> I am not sure about 9.1 have you tried "/etc/init.d/nfsserver start"
> 
> mike wrote:
> >On Tuesday 17 May 2005 18:32, Dave Driscoll wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Trying to get nfs server working. Nfs client works but when I try to
> >>export a directory to the machine that serves nfs mounts to the suse
> >>machine it times out without connecting. I have opened up permissions
> >>(chmod 777) on the directory I want to export. I've tried to mount
> >>with both Yast and command line.
> >>   
> >
> >I'm not sure if I understand this. Are you trying to get a directory 
> >from the server, or send one to it? I know it sounds funny, but that's 
> >what I read. If that's the case, you don't export directories from a 
> >client. You export from the server.
> >
> >
> > 
> >>I've tried variaous entries in /etc/exports. portmap and rpc.mountd
> >>are both running.
> >>rpc.nfsd does not seem to run as a daemon. I have tried rcnfsserver
> >>restart and running it directly from the command line and it appears
> >>to exit immediately with no error messages. Does anyone know the
> >>magic word or have some suggestions for how to trouble-shoot this?
> >>   
> >
> >in order, if you change the exports file, restart portmap, then 
> >rcnfsserver. That's the way I've always done it.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> > 
> 
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> Joseph Loo
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> 
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