[luau] NFS problem

[Warren Togami]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:01, burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> 
> I had some trouble starting the nfs daemons, then I found a good page at redhat
> <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-export.html>
> that got me going. But I still cannot share the directory, when I try I get
> a message about "the remote directory is invalid". I am trying to mount from
> an SGI station (running IRIX 6.5.15, should be okay), there are no other linux
> boxes in the lab.
> 

Try the following:
service portmap restart
service nfs restart
service nfslock restart

Then try a local NFS mount:
mkdir /tmp/somewhere
mount -t nfs localhost:/abyss /tmp/somewhere

Does that work?  If so, try the network mount again.  Also check for
messages in when you run "dmesg" or look at the bottom of
/var/log/messages and /var/log/secure.

> Could it be the filesystem format (ext3) causing a problem?

No.

> 
> Also, I want to use this setup with some SGI/IRIX clients running 6.5.10, which
> has an NFS bug. Upgrading IRIX on the other SGs would fix it, but that is not
> really an option right now. There is a linux patch at <ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/private/james/>
> (it forces linux to use 32bit file handles to make the SGs happy) but I am too
> much of a newbie to have a clue how to install the patch. Any suggestions where
> I can do my homework/manufacture a clue?
> 
> Dazzled Dave

Are you running the latest errata kernel for RH 7.3?  That would be
2.4.18-10?  Please let me know, and I'll attempt to make a kernel module
for you.

What arch is this machine (i386, i586, i686, athlon)?