mapping an NFS drive from remote comptuer

[RandyRiegel]

I am running RH Linux FC2 and need to map a directory from a remote server. The other server is an HP9000 running HP-UX 11.x. I have NFS shares setup on it, how can I mount one of those so it appears on my Linux machine?

Randy

 

[sedj]

I think you can do :

mount serverIP:/dir/To/Mount /localMountPoint

Failing that, have a look at Samba I guess.

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[stefanwagner]

or put it to your /etc/fstab:

server:/remoteDir  /local/dir  nfs  defaults,rw,user,exec 0 0

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[RandyRiegel]

I tried both of these and it replies with:

mount to NFS server 'server1' failed: server is down

I know the server is not down because I have Windows machines connected to it via NFS. Do I need to mount the drive as a user on the NFS drive. If so, how do I do this with the Linux mount commmand?

Randy

 

[predamarcel]

the ping is working?
if yes,
from the client (HP-UX) try the command:
showmount -e IP_of_nfs_server

show us the output.


btw: on both machines (client and server) you should have rpc process(es) started, for example at my machine:
# ps -ef | grep rpc
root 589 1 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind
root 625 1 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.statd
root 631 1 0 Apr 21 ? 7:43 /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
root 995 1 0 Apr 21 ? 2:39 /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
root 1133 1 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd

on client you need at least `rpcbind'

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[RandyRiegel]

The HP-UX machine is the host, Linux machine is the client.

From Linux machine (192.100.100.3) "showmount -e 192.100.100.1" produced the following output:

Export list for 192.100.100.1
/u/DOS/apps     (everyone)
/u/DOS/home     (everyone)
/tnet           (everyone)

On HP-UX machine (192.100.100.1):

/ >ps -ef | grep rpc
    root  4606  4050  0 15:49:51 ttyp1     0:00 grep rpc
    root   504     1  0  Jun 24  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.statd
    root   510     1  0  Jun 24  ?         2:10 /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
    root   952     1  0  Jun 24  ?         0:28 /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd
    root   927     1  0  Jun 24  ?         2:52 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
/ >

One Linux machine (192.100.100.3):

:~ # ps -ef | grep rpc
rpcuser   2235     1  0 Jul31 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
root      2262     1  0 Jul31 ?        00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
rpc        322     1  0 Aug01 ?        00:00:00 portmap
root       341     1  0 Aug01 ?        00:00:00 rpc.rquotad
root       364     1  0 Aug01 ?        00:00:00 [rpciod]
root       365     1  0 Aug01 ?        00:00:00 rpc.mountd
root     10692 10653  0 15:54 pts/39   00:00:00 grep rpc
:~ #

Any ideas?

 

[predamarcel]

hi again,
looks like the problem is on server.

On the server is runing the pcnfsd, which is not the same thing with nfsd, check if nfsd is runing.

ps -ef | grep nfsd
root 1146 1144 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1144 1 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1164 1146 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1147 1144 0 Apr 21 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4



take a look in "/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf" file
look for NFS_SERVER variable, this should be set to 1.
Probable lt's 0.

if is 0 , set it to 1, and restart the nfsd.

 

[RandyRiegel]

Everything appears just as you have above. I think problem is on the Linux machine. I have a SCO Openserver servers also and I can map the directory I want to from it. So the HP-UX machine must be working Ok for it to let the SCO machine map a dir. Hmmm... any more ideas?

Randy