On Friday 06 February 2004 02:52 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Jerome Lyles writes:

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I'm having trouble setting up NFS between two Suse 9.0 boxes.  One is set up as the server and one is set up as the client.  When I use Yast runlevel editor:details (expert mode) to start the nfs client I get this error message:

/etc/init.d/nfs start returned 1 (unspecified error):

Importing Net File System (NFS)mount: RPC: Program not registered ..failed

It means mountd is not registered by portmapper on the NFS server.

IMHO the portmap process must run both on the NFS client and the server. The following is from SUSE 8.2:

# /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p server

On machine A and B the srvers are running but: # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p server rpcinfo: server is unknown host # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p client rpcinfo: client is unknown host On machine A nfsserver is running but nfslock is not loaded (Yast says there is potential for conflict if nfs server and nfs-utils are both loaded. Is this true?). On B nfsserver and nfslock are running. The rcportmap status is: running on both machines. Thanks, Jerome

On Friday 06 February 2004 09:04 am, Jerome Lyles wrote:

On Friday 06 February 2004 02:52 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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Jerome Lyles writes:

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I'm having trouble setting up NFS between two Suse 9.0 boxes.  One is set up as the server and one is set up as the client.  When I use Yast runlevel editor:details (expert mode) to start the nfs client I get this error message:

/etc/init.d/nfs start returned 1 (unspecified error):

Importing Net File System (NFS)mount: RPC: Program not registered ..failed

It means mountd is not registered by portmapper on the NFS server.

mountd isn't registering with portmapper and I don't know why. On machine A and B the servers are running but: # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p 'server' No remote programs registered. # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p 'client' No remote programs registered. /etc/init.d/nfs start Importing Net File System (NFS)mount: RPC: Program not registered

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IMHO the portmap process must run both on the NFS client and the server.

The rcportmap status is: running on both machines. OK-the portmapper is running. The servers are running on both machines. But the nfs client cannot find the server because it is not registered. Why not?? "Normally" it would/should be registered with the portmapper and the server running,right? Are there commands to use to find out why 'No remote programs registered' is true (I assume this means the server)? Just in case the problem is here: etc/exports: /home/myhome/ 192.168.0.*(rw,root_squash,sync) etc/host.allow: portmap: 192.168.0.* lockd: 192.168.0.* rquotad: 192.168.0.* mountd: 192.168.0.* statd: 192.168.0.* /etc/hosts.deny: http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL portmap:ALL lockd:ALL mountd:ALL rquotad:ALL statd:ALL Thanks, Jerome

On Saturday 07 February 2004 01:53 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Jerome Lyles writes:

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On machine A and B the servers are running but:

# /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p 'server' No remote programs registered.

If portmapper is not visible then NFS will not work. You have to get it working first. Run "rpcinfo" on the NFS server:

I think the problem is that you use an approach which only experts can use: severely restrict access first and then start the service. An easier approach (highly recommended for beginners) is to start the service first and then gradually restrict the access.

This is true. I commented out the restrictions I added in /etc/hosts.deny. Now portmapper is visable to NFS. Thank you very much. It happens that portmap:ALL only allowed localhost access:-). Now I think the only obstacle left is this: # /etc/init.d/nfs start Importing Net File System (NFS)mount: linux:/home/adriel failed, reason given by server: Permission denied failed So I only have a permission problem left I think. Anyone have a solution?

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etc/host.allow: portmap: 192.168.0.*

I don't see this syntax in the "man 5 hosts_access". It doesn't mean it cannot work. Anyway, try

portmap: 192.168.0. or portmap 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 A.M.

I changed to 192.168.0. in hosts.allow on one of my boxes.

Just a silly question. Can you ping each machine from each other? Yes I can.

Also another gotcha is in /etc/exports file make sure you include a netmask with the ip address. For example this is an entry in my /etc/exports

/home 10.212.32.0/24(rw,sync) 10.212.33.0/24(rw,sync) I changed /etc/exports to: /home/myhome/ 192.168.0.0/24(rw,root_squash,sync) Thanks, Jerome

On Saturday 07 February 2004 06:22 am, Graham Smith wrote:

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:11, Jerome Lyles wrote:

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The rcportmap status is: running on both machines.

I think the problem is that you use an approach which only experts can use: severely restrict access first and then start the service. An easier approach (highly recommended for beginners) is to start the service first and then gradually restrict the access.

This is the first part of the solution:

Also another gotcha is in /etc/exports file make sure you include a netmask with the ip address. For example this is an entry in my /etc/exports

/home 10.212.32.0/24(rw,sync) 10.212.33.0/24(rw,sync) -- Regards, Graham Smith --------------------------------------------------------- This is the second part of the solution:

When I used a netmask on my /etc/exports entry: /home/myhome 192.168.0.0/24(rw,root-squash,sync) and ran exportfs -ra, the client connected to the server. Thank you all for your help. Jerome