NFS
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First off, I love Mepis, finally a distribution that got me off of windows forever.
MY question concerns NFS. I have done so much research on the net that I am going nuts not understanding why I can't get this to work.
I have loaded the module for nfs into the kernel. I checked /proc/filesystems and I see nfs there. I attempt to mount to my server, Mepis of course!, and I get: "mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused."
Lookup on the net again, looks like a portmap issue, however I dont see portmap anywhere on the system. TO be safe I turned off all firewalls on the server and client. Still have the issue. Can anyone provide assistance here? Not sure if I need to install nfs other than what came off the Simply Mepis 3.3.1 install CD.
TIA
nfs
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ok I may see what I am missing. I dont have an entry for nfs. There is no background process running for it. I guess I need to install this first.
NFS setup - Solved
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For those who may have the same problem I did:
1. Install nfs - Downloadable from http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
2. Install portmap and run daemon. I got it via apt-get.
3. Follow instructions from http://www.billsbox.net/doc/nfs_cheatsheet.html to setup nfs.
Thats it. It was a little frustrating, but I managed to get it all working and am very happy. Thanks for the help!
Your server needs to be
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Your server needs to be configured to give permissions.
On your server, edit /etc/exports and add something like this:
/ 192.168.200.9(rw,no_root_squash)
/mnt/hdb1 192.168.200.9(rw,no_root_squash)
The first argument is the pathname to be mounted, the second is the IP
address or hostname that you want to grant permission to.
Then kick/restart nfs on the server by doing something like this:
/etc/init.d/nfs reload
On the client, start nfs
/etc/init.d/nfs start
then mount the files you want
mount /mnt/hdb1@server /mnt/temp