topic Re: NFS Share mount problem in Operating System - Linux

NFS Share mount problem

Techm — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:24:02 GMT

I am having problem with mounting NFS Share. The NFS Server is on HP-UX 11.23 and the client is SUN Solaris 10. It is giving error 'nfs mount: retrying: /mbthpsharent directory on SUN where I am mounting the /export/home of HP-UX server.

Re: NFS Share mount problem

palaniappan.sp — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:50:47 GMT

Hi,

Could u post the content of NFS client and server.It will be easy for others to answer..

Redgs,
palani

Re: NFS Share mount problem

Techm — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:02:28 GMT

NFS Server Detail:
bash-3.1# showmount -e
export list for hp1:
/nfsTest (everyone)
bash-3.1#

NFS Client Detail:
bash-3.00# showmount -e hp1
export list for hp1:
/nfsTest (everyone)
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# mount -F nfs hp1:/nfsTest /mbthpshare/
nfs mount: retrying: /mbthpshare

It is trying to connect to the NFS share but no luck.

Re: NFS Share mount problem

anandganjihal — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:18:56 GMT

As I could see mountd is running on NFS server and imagine if client IP address verification failed on server side but if that is the case we will see messages like:

Cannot talk to mount server at reptile: RPC: Authentication error; why = Server rejected credential
Cannot talk to mount server at reptile: RPC: Timed out

So above is not the issue.

Does SUN solaris uses UDP by default??

IF that is the case then mount can fail when NFS server firewall rejects UDP connections(say if UDP ports are blocked by NFS server firewall)

Re: NFS Share mount problem

palaniappan.sp — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:35:52 GMT

Hi,
Instead of giving hostname on nfs server give ip address.(normally this will speed up the host resolving processes).
Configure udp protocol in server and client thru xinetd or inetd and try.But defaultly udp will be running in unix boxes.
In export list on server side give like this and try..
/nfs anon=2 or
/nfs -root=

Check these service are running in server and client 1)Portmap,rpc,Xinetd if u conigured,nfslock,nfsd.2) stop all firewall if u configured..
Check /etc/hosts,/etc/resolv.conf..

In server and client side
# ps aux | grep nfsd
If nfsd not already running, then run:
# nfsd 8 &

# ps aux | grep mountd
If mountd is not already running, then run:
# rpc.mountd -n &

regds,
palani.

Re: NFS Share mount problem

Terrywcoz — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:12:38 GMT

Just checking, but did you stop all nfs processes on hp1 then start them again?