topic Re: NFS in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS

Stephen Young_1 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:03:41 GMT

Can anyone give me the command line syntax and
list any files I will need to edit
to set up an NFS between two servers.
The NFS is to be permanent
so will require an entry in fstab (I think)

Cheers in advance

Re: NFS

Alex Glennie — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:09:53 GMT

see http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90000/B1031-90000.html for full details ?

key files and commands :

Edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

- Change NFS_CLIENT=1 to NFS_CLIENT=0.
- Change NFS_SERVER=1 to NFS_SERVER=0.

- /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start/stop
- /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start/stop

Re: NFS

Alex Glennie — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:12:39 GMT

Ooop's got my 1's and 0's the wrong way around !

Re: NFS

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:13:52 GMT

Hi Stephen,

At a basic level, edit the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file on each machine to tell the system to start the correct server/client processes.

On the server, add the directories you wish to be available for mounting, and run exportfs to enable it.

On the client add an entry to /etc/fstab of the form:

server:/mnt /mnt nfs rw,hard 0 0 #mount from server

All these can be found in the man pages for:

nfs
exports
exportfs
fstab

Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, automounts, direct/indirect maps, etc. but this is the basics.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: NFS

Stephen Young_1 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:44:08 GMT

I want to access a filesystem called /exports on a server called ben from a server (client) called bill and mount it it on /steve
would the entry in fstab on bill be.

ben:/exports /steve nfs rw,hard 0 0

What do hard, and 0 0 mean ?

Cheers in advance

Re: NFS

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:58:16 GMT

Hi Stephen,

"hard" is an option specific to nfs mounts, and it means:

Once the file system is mounted, retry subsequent NFS requests until server responds (default).

It is the default. To see the other possible options, run "man mount_nfs"

The first 0 is ignored (see man fstab), the second tells the system not to bother fsck'ing this filesystem at boot time.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: NFS

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:12:11 GMT

Hi Stephen,

Look at the thred below for more info.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=Configuring%20NFS%20Server&queryid=20011005-061313

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/42-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/42-toc.html&searchterms=Configuring%20NFS%20Server&queryid=20011005-061313

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Re: NFS

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:16:45 GMT

Hi Stephen,

To learn more about the different options you can put in /etc/fstab for mounting a NFS filesystem look at the thread below and look for the section "To Change the Default Mount Options "

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/9-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/9-toc.html&searchterms=To%20Verify%20Your%20NFS%20Client%20Configuration%20%20&queryid=20011005-061726

Hope this explain all the options you may want to know about.

Thanks