[luau] NFS problem

[burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com]

>From: Ray Strode <halfline at hawaii.rr.com>
>Make sure that you have the port mapper running.

Yeah, that was running before I even tried to do anything, out of the box.


>>There is a linux patch at <ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/private/james/>
>That patch is for an old version of kernel and it no doubt won't apply to 

>recent
>versions of the kernel.  ...the patch (in one form or another) might already
be 
>integrated into
>the main tree, 
>--Ray

I hope it's not in the kernel, it sort of "breaks" NFS to match the SGI bug.



>From: Warren Togami <warren at togami.com>
>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

It fails, error message is:

mount: localhost:\abyss failed, reason given by server: Permission denied.

I have set the permissions of /abyss so everyone has rwx. There has to be a
problem with /etc/exports?

result of [tail -f /var/log/messages]  is:

ultraviolet rpc.mountd: refused mount request from localhost for /abyss (/):
no export entry

so I tried [mount -t nfs 192.168.1.141:/abyss /tmp/somewhere] and it worked!
I guess localhost is mapping to 127.0.0.1 which is excluded  by my /etc/exports
file.

Now it works on the SG, but only if I use the command line. I had been using
their GUI filesystem manager, but it still can't find the /abyss directory.
But I can cope. This actually was probably my real problem.

Thanks everyone.

It even works on the SGIs with the old OS, so I guess the patch did get rolled
into the kernel. Or else maybe the bug is intermittent/slow to show a problem?



Anyhow, now everything seems to be working.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Delighted Dave