Re: [SLE] Strange NFS Problem

8 Aug 2005

      On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:18 -0700, Art Fore wrote:
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On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:02 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
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Did you create the users on the different machines explicitly to have
the same UIDs? Or are you using NIS or some similar distributed name
service thingy?
Log in as lilo on each machine and type "id" you want to see the same
numbers for UID and GID on each system.
Cheers,
Simon
--- Art Fore  wrote:
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I have a Suse 9.3 server running NFS server with two users, afore and
lilo
...
From my client, also Suse 9.3, running NFS Client, I see the shared
directories afore & lilo. File ownership is as it should be, afore
for
afore directory and lilo for lilo directory.
I Lilo's machine is running Suse 9.2. First of all, when I setup the
NFS
client in Yast and try to select for the file system, it cannot find
anything. I enter the /home directory same as on my Suse 9.3 machine.
When I finish, it takes a long time for Yast to start the services
again.
I check the mount point, and the two directories are there, but afore
as
ownership of lilo and lilo folder has ownership of 2002!
So, why does the select remote filesystem not work in 9.2 and work in
9.3 and why to the ownerships show up different on the two client
machines.
Server is set to allow all hosts and the firewalls turned off on all
machines for test purposes.
Art
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Well I have liloo machine upgraded to 9.3, same problem as before. What
I don't understand is how when I go into yast, network services, nfs
client and add a new server, put in the server ip address, then try the
select remote file system, it comes up empty and that machine, but on my
machine, it comes up correctly. Same network, server NFS server has *
that can access the /home directory.
Art
I have run route -n on lilo machine and it comes up the same as afore
machine.

Turned off firewall and ran iptables -F.

Can ping 192.168.0.4 and get reply

I can access the internet

I can ssh to 192.168.0.4 from lilo machine.

Tring to connect with Krds says it cannot find host. This worked in 9.2
before the new 9.3 installation

NFS clinet setup in YAST still does not find either host or remote files
system. Entering the info manually, it that it cannot mount fstab entry.

Fstab entry is same for both client machines.

I added the host name via the Yast network hosts setup and tried using
host name, which I can ping, still same thing.

So, what else to try?

Art