[opensuse] NFS for /home on SuSE10.3
Hi list, - I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask... That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right? I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it? -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask...
That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right?
Yes, and definitely.
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
Yup, that's it. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask...
That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right?
Yes, and definitely.
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
Yup, that's it.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Hope you have started the portmap and the nfs daemons. ;) - Gowrishankar Rajaiyan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
GS R wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now,
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
Hope you have started the portmap and the nfs daemons. ;)
And that the firewall isn't blocking it. Probably the easiest way to set it up is to use the 'NFS Client' panel in YaST. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
GS R skrev:
Per Jessen wrote:
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask...
That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right?
Yes, and definitely.
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
Yup, that's it.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Hope you have started the portmap and the nfs daemons. ;)
- Gowrishankar Rajaiyan
Bingo! - thank you, Portmap was it !! -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 Prisbillig hotelovernatning! Se www.bbhotels.dk -------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask...
That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right?
Yes. But I would advise using automount instead of NFS.
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
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Evens Garde wrote:
Yes. But I would advise using automount instead of NFS.
Really? How does one do that? :-) Whether or not you use automount, you won't get around using NFS. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
Evens Garde wrote:
Yes. But I would advise using automount instead of NFS.
Really? How does one do that? :-) Whether or not you use automount, you won't get around using NFS.
Automount provides NFS mounts "on demand" rather than a one-time try at boot up -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Evens Garde wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Evens Garde wrote:
Yes. But I would advise using automount instead of NFS.
Really? How does one do that? :-) Whether or not you use automount, you won't get around using NFS.
Automount provides NFS mounts "on demand" rather than a one-time try at boot up
I know - but I'll still challenge you to "use automount instead of NFS". You won't get anywhere without NFS, whether or not it is automagically mounted. Wrt automount - for a single person mounting a single filesystem, automount really isn't worth setting up. It's far more applicable on large systems with hundreds or thousands of users. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 07:47 -0400, Evens Garde wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Evens Garde wrote:
Yes. But I would advise using automount instead of NFS.
Really? How does one do that? :-) Whether or not you use automount, you won't get around using NFS.
Automount provides NFS mounts "on demand" rather than a one-time try at boot up
Earlier on this list reported an issue I was having with NFS where two systems were booting at the same time, and one wanted to mount an NFS volume from the other. Despite advertised option of background booting, I never got this to work. I later found that the reason was that the system serving the NFS reports access denied during the short time the network comes up and before NFS is ready. The guy mounting may be in the background. But when it sees this access problem, it gives up. I saw no way to gewt the serving system to report something less catastrophic when things were just starting, so, I came up with a different solution, which I do not really like. I think using automount sounds more reasonable. What is the absolute easiest way to set it up for an NFS mount on a secure private network? I seem to recall that automount was 'feature rich' in configuration. But perhaps I should re-investigate it as an option to my own NFS issues. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I think using automount sounds more reasonable. What is the absolute easiest way to set it up for an NFS mount on a secure private network?
The easiest is according to the book :-) Go and do some googling and you'll find some howto that'll explain it. I'm not using automount myself (anymore), but I seem to remember it wasn't particularly complex. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen skrev:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I think using automount sounds more reasonable. What is the absolute easiest way to set it up for an NFS mount on a secure private network?
The easiest is according to the book :-) Go and do some googling and you'll find some howto that'll explain it. I'm not using automount myself (anymore), but I seem to remember it wasn't particularly complex.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Hi list, - FYI, SOLVED many ansers ago :-) - I missed out portmapper, sigh. And Ubuntu gave me a clueless message that I couldn't interpret. Once I got portmapper in, it's all like I expected. Now, however, you lot got me interested in Automount, so I'll dig a little into that... Thanks to everyone! -- -------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 www.os-academy.dk +45 56964223 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 09:26 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- I'm having a little trouble setting up a SuSE10.3 to use an exported NFS partition for /home. I won't bother you with details right now, just ask...
That's a pretty basic thing and should be quite possible, right?
I mean I just define it in /etc/fstab and provided that the export at the other end is good, that's about it?
You miss understand the use of automount. It is used to mount the partition. It is another method to mount an nfs mount, rather than /etc/fstab. When you use automount, if the mount is not available, you can have it wait or attempt to munt the /home later. If the mount is not used over an extended period of (timeout) it will automatically unmount the mount point thus conserving resources.
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