topic Re: NFS in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS

Jeff Hagstrom — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:06:23 GMT

How do I NFS mount a directory so that 2 different machines an access the directory?

Re: NFS

Byron Myers — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:27:17 GMT

On the server exporting the NFS directory:
place exported directory in /etc/exports. Example: on nfshost /var/mydir -access=host1:host2
This allows only host1 and host1 machines to NFS mount /var/mydir.

ON host1 and host2, edit /etc/fstab to something like: "nfshost:/var/mydir /local/mydir nfs rw,suid,soft,timeo=14 0 0" where nfshost is the hostname of the NFS server above.

Also make sure NFS server is running on "nfshost" and NFS clients are running on "host1" and "host2" above. See /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf to activate NFS server and client at boot.

Re: NFS

Santosh Nair_1 — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:37:28 GMT

On the NFS server side, make sure NFS_SERVER is set to 1 and make sure the nfs daemons are running. Edit the /etc/exports on this machine and then run exportfs -a

On the NFS client side, make sure NFS_CLIENT is set to 1 and make sure the daemons are running. Then edit /etc/fstab, make the mount point directories and do a mountall.

If all is okay, then the filesystems you exported from the server should be mounted on the client.

-Santosh

Re: NFS

Jeff Hagstrom — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:01:09 GMT

I am getting a Permission Denied message when i try to run # mount -aF nfs .

Re: NFS

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:06:22 GMT

Hi Jeff,

You can configure the NFS Server, NFS client, directory export from NFS server server and Mounting exported directories at the client using SAM.

On the Server from where you want to export the directories which should get mounted by clients, use sam to configure the NFS server server capability and export the directory or filesystem.

On the system you want to mount these directories using Sam enable the NFS Client capability and If you want to mount the direcories automatically at the system boot, add them into /etc/fstab using sam.

If on the other hand you want to mount these direcotories as and when required, use the mount command on the command prompt to mount these directory/directories.

hope this helps.

thanks

Re: NFS

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:15:32 GMT

Hi Jeff:

I suspect what is missing on your NFS clients is the mountpoint. Create a mountpoing via mkdir /remotefs1. The mount -F nfs remote_host:/remote_fs /remotefs1.

You must also edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf on both the clients and the server and set NFS_CLIENT=1 and NFS_SERVER=1. You should make sure that you can resolve hostnames in both directions. You can then start the services manually, via SAM, or simply reboot.

Once you can mount manually, you can then either make /etc/fstab entries on the clients or setup the automounter on the clients.

Clay

Re: NFS

Sachin Patel — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:27:00 GMT

Hi
on server: if you are exporting /home
1.edit /etc/exports on server
/home
2.edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
NFS_SERVER=1
3.start nfs server
#/etc/rc2.d/K900nfs.sever start
4 #exportfs -ev (to export filesystems)

On client
1. cd /
2. mkdir tmp_home
3. edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
NFS_CLIENT=1
4. start nfs client
#/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start
5. mount server:/home /tmp_home

man shoumount. useful command.

Sachin